{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including marinff-test.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-2973 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-2025-2973 is a malicious package in marinff-test, published on 2 Mar 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-2973 is a malicious package: marinff-test (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-2025-2973/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2973/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-2973","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2973/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-2973","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Installing the package starts a reverse shell. The remote server is, however, set as a local IP, so it's most probably testing\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\nCampaign: 2025-03-marinff\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.","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 marinff-test (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-2973","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":"marinff-test","purl":"pkg:pypi/marinff-test","source":"MAL-2025-2973"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-03-02","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-2025-2973/"}