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


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `caixaequ2ahzoop` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 27 May 2025

## What is MAL-2025-4526?

MAL-2025-4526 is a malicious package in caixaequ2ahzoop, published on 27 May 2025. 

### Official 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

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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.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-4526?

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-2025-4526 is a malicious package: caixaequ2ahzoop (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-2025-4526/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4526/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-4526

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-4526/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.