MAL-2025-4526 Malicious code in caixaequ2ahzoop (PyPI)

Obfuscated code gets a command from the remote target and executes it. At the time of the test, it was just "whoami". Thus, it's rather just an experiment

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2025-05-caixaequ2ahzoop

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• obfuscation

• The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'caixaequ2ahzoop' @ 2.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

• The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.