MAL-2025-191802 Malicious code in netmanagement (PyPI)
- Package
- netmanagement
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-191802?
MAL-2025-191802 is a malicious package in netmanagement, published on 7 Sep 2025.
Official description
The package appears to be a PoC of overwriting "requests" package files. The new "requests/init.py" takes over common requests features and uses the implementation that a) logs every request to a file (but no external exfiltration, this may also be expected in some situations); b) after every 5 requests, opens the calculator app. The second shows clearly that the intention is to present a security risk, not create a real package.
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: 2025-08-netmanagement
Reasons (based on the campaign):
action-hidden-in-lib-usage
other
What should I do about MAL-2025-191802?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.