mal-2025-47762
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-08-23 11:16
Modified
2025-12-31 02:45
Summary
Malicious code in electrum-bch (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (8e4c3bb0f735a352c6f4d18865f3a145912c31f6b9da22c48e731e7fe750b1dd)

The modification of https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum (not clear which version or fork) that during usage will exfiltrate files from the current directory, presumably wanting to collect sensitive data.

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

Campaign: 2025-08-electrum-bch

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • crypto-related

  • action-hidden-in-lib-usage

  • exfiltration-crypto

  • exfiltration-generic

  • clones-real-package



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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "electrum-bch",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/electrum-bch"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.3.6",
        "0.3.7",
        "0.3.8",
        "0.3.9",
        "0.3.5"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": [
        "136.243.103.253"
      ],
      "urls": [
        "http://136.243.103.253:8080/upload"
      ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-04763",
        "import_time": "2025-09-26T11:05:32.592233195Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-09-26T09:13:55Z",
        "sha256": "d2bb6f0671f65c17290c09be93e9e37c8619fdd1be42ba85f5e96b63f3645e5d",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "0.3.6",
          "0.3.7",
          "0.3.8",
          "0.3.9"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-08-electrum-bch/electrum-bch",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.125312163Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-23T11:16:26.305373Z",
        "sha256": "709670ac9cef9e8f4a4d2a2e93d9ea07c9892f2237dd309c3294ae84c4d6915a",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.3.9",
          "0.3.8",
          "0.3.7",
          "0.3.6",
          "0.3.5"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-08-electrum-bch/electrum-bch",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.136008125Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-23T11:16:26.305373Z",
        "sha256": "8e4c3bb0f735a352c6f4d18865f3a145912c31f6b9da22c48e731e7fe750b1dd",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.3.9",
          "0.3.8",
          "0.3.7",
          "0.3.6",
          "0.3.5"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-08-electrum-bch/electrum-bch",
        "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.077760618Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-23T11:16:26.305373Z",
        "sha256": "22c1e1447fff58ea767fecde710b5f63112c0d85e8ab703e7f54ec3db6e0c99f",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.3.5",
          "0.3.6",
          "0.3.7",
          "0.3.8",
          "0.3.9"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (8e4c3bb0f735a352c6f4d18865f3a145912c31f6b9da22c48e731e7fe750b1dd)\nThe modification of https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum (not clear which version or fork) that during usage will exfiltrate files from the current directory, presumably wanting to collect sensitive data.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-08-electrum-bch\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - crypto-related\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n\n - exfiltration-crypto\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - clones-real-package\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-47762",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T02:45:15Z",
  "published": "2025-08-23T11:16:26Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/electrum-bch"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in electrum-bch (PyPI)"
}


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