{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including caixaequ2ahzoop.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-4526 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-2025-4526 is a malicious package in caixaequ2ahzoop, published on 27 May 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-4526 is a malicious package: caixaequ2ahzoop (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-2025-4526/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4526/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-4526","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4526/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-4526","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"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\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: 2025-05-caixaequ2ahzoop\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'caixaequ2ahzoop' @ 2.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.","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 caixaequ2ahzoop (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-4526","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":"caixaequ2ahzoop","purl":"pkg:pypi/caixaequ2ahzoop","source":"MAL-2025-4526"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-05-27","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-2025-4526/"}