mal-2025-191722
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-11-24 13:19
Modified
2025-12-31 02:45
Summary
Malicious code in evil-py-argo-shell (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee)

Package demonstrate potentially malicious execution of system commands, and seems to be used for pentesting purposes

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-simple-tests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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


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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "evil-py-argo-shell"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.1.2",
        "0.1.1",
        "0.1.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": "ANALYST"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.015696197Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
        "sha256": "62a70f79e3901af2f9b191e6b6da470a4fa3588fdfdefe043cf145ff6b8bd24e",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.2",
          "0.1.1",
          "0.1.0"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.214513054Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
        "sha256": "1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.2",
          "0.1.1",
          "0.1.0"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-simple-tests/evil-py-argo-shell",
        "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.284750785Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-11-24T13:19:35.663911Z",
        "sha256": "211d2fa701e559dae3b4dee75be2f9b1e802ebd79ed5d98c038164473b01fa08",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.0",
          "0.1.1",
          "0.1.2"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee)\nPackage demonstrate potentially malicious execution of system commands, and seems to be used for pentesting purposes\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-simple-tests\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-191722",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T02:45:15Z",
  "published": "2025-11-24T13:19:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/evil-py-argo-shell"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in evil-py-argo-shell (PyPI)"
}


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