# MAL-2025-1977: Malicious code in hellohackers (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `hellohackers` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 5 Feb 2025

## What is MAL-2025-1977?

MAL-2025-1977 is a malicious package in hellohackers, published on 5 Feb 2025. 

### Official description

File contains a metapreter beacon that runs in the setup.py. Analysed version uses a local IP as the target.

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

Campaign: 2025-02-hellohackers

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-1977?

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-2025-1977 is a malicious package: hellohackers (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-2025-1977/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-1977/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-1977

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-1977/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.