MAL-2025-6973

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/flatfox-api-python/MAL-2025-6973.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-6973
Published
2025-08-18T18:31:35Z
Modified
2025-12-31T02:53:48.101567Z
Summary
Malicious code in flatfox-api-python (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (a81db9eb6d8c8eb51eecf49610e1282097b77630ccb58b6eef3e2f002e5fe0e2)

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 (d82a5bf63c0c510997a6d8d438e71f8522351b6e4c0cbca760d856ef2b623342)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'flatfox-api-python' @ 0.3 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

  • The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "import_time": "2025-08-18T18:44:10.212426557Z",
            "sha256": "d82a5bf63c0c510997a6d8d438e71f8522351b6e4c0cbca760d856ef2b623342",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:31:35Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.045817111Z",
            "sha256": "688dcb86e71feda7dff5b609da6dcd8dae0e113c2bc709b76592ab122c10be88",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.3",
                "0.2",
                "0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.237216656Z",
            "sha256": "a81db9eb6d8c8eb51eecf49610e1282097b77630ccb58b6eef3e2f002e5fe0e2",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.3",
                "0.2",
                "0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
            "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.28962285Z",
            "sha256": "e70b0b90ab8583f9dd6104ada5da8f42c68b76d4ab9244a4b0904faeba37a8ef",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
            "versions": [
                "0.1",
                "0.2",
                "0.3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / flatfox-api-python

Package

Name
flatfox-api-python
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Purl
pkg:pypi/flatfox-api-python

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1
0.2
0.3

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/flatfox-api-python/MAL-2025-6973.json"