mal-2025-3015
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-02-13 13:18
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in watchitoring (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (0b2a1b7442e643963d1f4aa3fe8696741f7ed248d39effb173f8d77e37690066)

Infostealer with multiple possibilities, but not auto-activating on installation. There are already multiple attempts to publish it, with different innocent-looking names.

The campaign contains the with Infostealer itself and packages that include it as dependency and triggered.


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

Campaign: 2025-02-multis

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "watchitoring",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/watchitoring"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.1.0",
        "0.1.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": "ANALYST"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-02014",
        "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:07.343524729Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:06:29Z",
        "sha256": "ac40257ceeca8a5d1426d3ddf5c364d3e31a953964d3aa4c1d2384b8de440f74",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.0",
          "0.1.1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/watchitoring",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.730999Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "ff391e12bfdd85488464b90c8666148af6d177b2620ce2637e19ea67391e1794",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/watchitoring",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.772053752Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "0b2a1b7442e643963d1f4aa3fe8696741f7ed248d39effb173f8d77e37690066",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/watchitoring",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.940976328Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
        "sha256": "70c42535b6ba7391e60825a2ed0bf740a7c0027db0a5c519a044872655cda3d4",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.0",
          "0.1.1"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (0b2a1b7442e643963d1f4aa3fe8696741f7ed248d39effb173f8d77e37690066)\nInfostealer with multiple possibilities, but not auto-activating on installation. There are already multiple attempts to publish it, with different innocent-looking names.\n\nThe campaign contains the with Infostealer itself and packages that include it as dependency and triggered.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-multis\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-3015",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:54Z",
  "published": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/watchitoring"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in watchitoring (PyPI)"
}


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