MAL-2025-6787

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/flatfox-api/MAL-2025-6787.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-6787
Published
2025-07-30T10:19:17Z
Modified
2025-12-31T02:53:48.775809Z
Summary
Malicious code in flatfox-api (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (c1abb243ceb7b5b94ca2f950d7cf27838ad4c22bc9771a0ea878af5497bfebf2)

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (429da42d718cc5f399915b0f5d2f25d3d86f9286a96be2f0661216bd13dc6f17)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'flatfox-api' @ 999.999.99 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.
Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "import_time": "2025-08-05T06:46:13.938183227Z",
            "sha256": "429da42d718cc5f399915b0f5d2f25d3d86f9286a96be2f0661216bd13dc6f17",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-30T11:17:20Z",
            "versions": [
                "999.999.99"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.046696354Z",
            "sha256": "99b775636f0a7f36ef5855cd9717205e2c37b6a439c92605fa00fb52aa48cdfb",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-30T10:19:17.278071Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.238197799Z",
            "sha256": "c1abb243ceb7b5b94ca2f950d7cf27838ad4c22bc9771a0ea878af5497bfebf2",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-30T10:19:17.278071Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.38121822Z",
            "sha256": "bbc0888a3e36d7bba9af7c277fa3071aa4eb2009ceece0cb55f559c20742ee5d",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-30T10:19:17.278071Z",
            "versions": [
                "99.99.99",
                "99.99",
                "9.9.9",
                "9.9.99",
                "999.999.99",
                "9999.99"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api",
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.290536204Z",
            "sha256": "d42c9b2305ff878c3a0d2a7361edd675b3575b69e312f77837d53b2fe15481c0",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-07-30T10:19:17.278071Z",
            "versions": [
                "9.9.9",
                "9.9.99",
                "99.99",
                "99.99.99",
                "999.999.99",
                "9999.99"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / flatfox-api

Package

Name
flatfox-api
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/flatfox-api

Affected ranges

Affected versions

9.*
9.9.9
9.9.99
99.*
99.99
99.99.99
999.*
999.999.99
9999.*
9999.99

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/flatfox-api/MAL-2025-6787.json"