mal-2025-6524
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-05-09 20:14
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in initer (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (d2aac1e40660cbe4323a93d03087f3b9a2d596a5dcfcf2bae3cb0a2ab37cf646)

File is designed to download, hide under system-like name, and run a remote executable, widely identified as malicious.


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

Campaign: 2025-05-pyiniter

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "initer",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/initer"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.2.1",
        "0.2.2",
        "0.2.5",
        "0.2.6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": {
    "iocs": {
      "urls": [
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Sierftgddfgrth/win32dll/main/win32dll.exe"
      ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-03617",
        "import_time": "2025-08-01T10:07:11.848733674Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-07-31T19:15:20Z",
        "sha256": "d861b2940416441d955f0078fd9ba3c35223bfce822fc68aea70992eaeff8ef1",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.2.1",
          "0.2.2",
          "0.2.5",
          "0.2.6"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-pyiniter/initer",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.272800406Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-09T20:14:13Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "f45885faecd0182d82ca81d8adaf52a442b0f493b06eb7b74e8252ab4f009305",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-pyiniter/initer",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.296967663Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-09T20:14:13Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "d2aac1e40660cbe4323a93d03087f3b9a2d596a5dcfcf2bae3cb0a2ab37cf646",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-pyiniter/initer",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.543740644Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-09T20:14:13Z",
        "sha256": "21397f251ca4fbd591f60ad9a363777197cfd0746788a1c23854abbbe948bb6b",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.2.1",
          "0.2.2",
          "0.2.5",
          "0.2.6"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (d2aac1e40660cbe4323a93d03087f3b9a2d596a5dcfcf2bae3cb0a2ab37cf646)\nFile is designed to download, hide under system-like name, and run a remote executable, widely identified as malicious.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-05-pyiniter\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-6524",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:53Z",
  "published": "2025-05-09T20:14:13Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "EVIDENCE",
      "url": "https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fbb53fbf45d3ec579d4273ae95e8c833f12d66a2111633d65edb1e42513addc6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/M2YwMDg3ZDUyOWFlZjIxY2RlMTE2ODQwMmJmMmU2MDE6MTc0ODU2MTExMQ=="
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/initer"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in initer (PyPI)"
}


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