# MAL-2025-3448: Malicious code in httpx-client (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `httpx-client` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 17 Mar 2025

## What is MAL-2025-3448?

MAL-2025-3448 is a malicious package in httpx-client, published on 17 Mar 2025. 

### Official description

Importing the module starts downloading and executing first a script, and then a widely identified malware

Packages are used as dependencies in a GitHub project https://github.com/ToolParadiseDrako/Nuker-Tool-Paradise

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

Campaign: 2025-03-httpx-client

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

 - malware

## What should I do about MAL-2025-3448?

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-2025-3448 is a malicious package: httpx-client (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-2025-3448/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-3448/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-3448

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-3448/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.