mal-2025-1977
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-02-05 13:44
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in hellohackers (PyPI)
Details

-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-

Source: kam193 (63788f1f3223270be7955b619eb09fa7e7f401084e4332ed732d33b522782a37)

File contains a metapreter beacon that runs in the setup.py. Analysed version uses a local IP as the target.


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-02-hellohackers

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "hellohackers",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/hellohackers"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "REPORTER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-01218",
        "import_time": "2025-03-03T15:07:15.298407434Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-03T13:44:56Z",
        "sha256": "c2de01c21a8aa72a0ad26f9f27c1f3897622d0264fd4017c067256ce42d533af",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.0.0"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-hellohackers/hellohackers",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.239959972Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-05T13:44:52Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "9e3856f0b40aa18b9020c86248b2322cdcccf971a35bcf2f502cf25d2d38720b",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-hellohackers/hellohackers",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.262402433Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-05T13:44:52Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "63788f1f3223270be7955b619eb09fa7e7f401084e4332ed732d33b522782a37",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-hellohackers/hellohackers",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.524980642Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-05T13:44:52Z",
        "sha256": "d39a526ef9f55702e95ae7871404e884b47fe089c1d11a5aa131114a756435be",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (63788f1f3223270be7955b619eb09fa7e7f401084e4332ed732d33b522782a37)\nFile contains a metapreter beacon that runs in the setup.py. Analysed version uses a local IP as the target.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-hellohackers\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim\u0027s machine.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-1977",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:53Z",
  "published": "2025-02-05T13:44:52Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hellohackers"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in hellohackers (PyPI)"
}


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