# MAL-2025-4270: Malicious code in web3automation (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `web3automation` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 27 Apr 2025

## What is MAL-2025-4270?

MAL-2025-4270 is a malicious package in web3automation, published on 27 Apr 2025. 

### Official description

Package contains just a function to send out data. It (or a package sharing the same IoCs) is used in a malicious GitHub project to exfiltrate crypto currency private keys, e.g. https://github.com/taikoyaki/MegaEth-Auto-Bot/blob/772b4591daaa0b200d1bd1fd3be3d48b8433f084/cap/cap.py#L49

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

Campaign: 2025-04-alchemyrpcs

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - crypto-related

 - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

 - exfiltration-crypto

## What should I do about MAL-2025-4270?

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-2025-4270 is a malicious package: web3automation (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-2025-4270/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4270/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-4270

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4270/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.