mal-2025-3019
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-03-09 20:47
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in wiki-requests (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697)

Setup.py attempts to exfiltrate information about the system and span a reverse shell


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

Campaign: 2025-03-wiki-requests

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.

  • exfiltration-generic

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


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "wiki-requests",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/wiki-requests"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.0.1",
        "0.0.2",
        "0.0.3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": {
    "iocs": {
      "ips": [
        "38.181.219.70"
      ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-02018",
        "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:07.552775056Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:06:33Z",
        "sha256": "e73c711369bea9a57b1db2fd56b1bebb612fad1c694da9147c918d96b022fe28",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.0.1",
          "0.0.2",
          "0.0.3"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-03-wiki-requests/wiki-requests",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.773022137Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-09T20:47:18Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "a5d6f03266e01e339a10713b7cdfb1790beeb6ff351e3aa5d320389f2ce30dfe",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-03-wiki-requests/wiki-requests",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.816749539Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-09T20:47:18Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-03-wiki-requests/wiki-requests",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.991298546Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-03-09T20:47:18Z",
        "sha256": "a5d7d773f86d2e4292db788e2afe5c9bd1cc7e714622b893108ba2707e19ca09",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.0.1",
          "0.0.2",
          "0.0.3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697)\nSetup.py attempts to exfiltrate information about the system and span a reverse shell\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-03-wiki-requests\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\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-3019",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:54Z",
  "published": "2025-03-09T20:47:18Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/wiki-requests"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in wiki-requests (PyPI)"
}


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