ossf_malicious_packages - mal-2025-6973

mal-2025-6973

Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages

Published

2025-08-18 18:31

Modified

2025-12-31 02:45

Summary

Malicious code in flatfox-api-python (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (a81db9eb6d8c8eb51eecf49610e1282097b77630ccb58b6eef3e2f002e5fe0e2)

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.

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-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (d82a5bf63c0c510997a6d8d438e71f8522351b6e4c0cbca760d856ef2b623342)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'flatfox-api-python' @ 0.3 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "flatfox-api-python"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.3",
        "0.2",
        "0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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://github.com/ossf/package-analysis",
        "https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"
      ],
      "name": "OpenSSF: Package Analysis",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "import_time": "2025-08-18T18:44:10.212426557Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:31:35Z",
        "sha256": "d82a5bf63c0c510997a6d8d438e71f8522351b6e4c0cbca760d856ef2b623342",
        "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
        "versions": [
          "0.3"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.045817111Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
        "sha256": "688dcb86e71feda7dff5b609da6dcd8dae0e113c2bc709b76592ab122c10be88",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.3",
          "0.2",
          "0.1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.237216656Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
        "sha256": "a81db9eb6d8c8eb51eecf49610e1282097b77630ccb58b6eef3e2f002e5fe0e2",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.3",
          "0.2",
          "0.1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flatfox-api-python",
        "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.28962285Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-18T18:58:14.565458Z",
        "sha256": "e70b0b90ab8583f9dd6104ada5da8f42c68b76d4ab9244a4b0904faeba37a8ef",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1",
          "0.2",
          "0.3"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (a81db9eb6d8c8eb51eecf49610e1282097b77630ccb58b6eef3e2f002e5fe0e2)\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\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-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n## Source: ossf-package-analysis (d82a5bf63c0c510997a6d8d438e71f8522351b6e4c0cbca760d856ef2b623342)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified \u0027flatfox-api-python\u0027 @ 0.3 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-6973",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T02:45:15Z",
  "published": "2025-08-18T18:31:35Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/flatfox-api-python"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in flatfox-api-python (PyPI)"
}

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