# MAL-2025-192376: Malicious code in graphnode (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `graphnode` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 8 Dec 2025

## What is MAL-2025-192376?

MAL-2025-192376 is a malicious package in graphnode, published on 8 Dec 2025. 

### Official description

This is a malicious copy of the networkx package. It contains an obfuscated script that downloads and runs further scripts from one of multiple locations, and perform covering tracks by removing the modified code and all references to it. During the analysis, most of remote URLs did not serve any meaningful content, so the final goal is unknown.

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

Campaign: 2025-12-graphnode

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - obfuscation

 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

 - clones-real-package

## What should I do about MAL-2025-192376?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2025-192376 is a malicious package: graphnode (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-192376/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-192376/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-192376

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-192376/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.