{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including perfviewer.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-191814 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2025-191814 is a malicious package in perfviewer, published on 16 Nov 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-191814 is a malicious package: perfviewer (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191814/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191814/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-191814","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191814/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-191814","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"During installation, code downloads and starts an executable and a DLL library. After starting them, files are removed from the disk. The executable has been recognized as AsyncRAT\n\nThis is a copy of legitimate \"rich\" package.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-11-perfviewer\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n - malware","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in perfviewer (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-191814","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2025"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"perfviewer","purl":"pkg:pypi/perfviewer","source":"MAL-2025-191814"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-11-16","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191814/"}