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criticalpypi·malware·osv

Malicious code in my-test-package-2025-xyz (PyPI)

my-test-package-2025-xyz

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for my-test-package-2025-xyz (pypi).

Description

During installation, the package opens a reverse shell


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

Campaign: 2026-05-my-test-package-2025-xyz

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.

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

Technical details

Indicators

  • affected version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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