{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including hellodista.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-5653 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-2025-5653 is a malicious package in hellodista, published on 4 Jul 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-5653 is a malicious package: hellodista (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-2025-5653/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5653/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-5653","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5653/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-5653","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Series of packages mostly with an obfuscated infostealer attempting to collect Chrome data. While discord webhook is usually set to an example, there are other, correct uploading URLs \n\nSome of related packages only test partial malicious code, like webhooks from overwritten setup.py\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-07-0x9xnx\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - infostealer\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - exfiltration-browser-data\n\n - exfiltration-crypto\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'hellodista' @ 0.1.2 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","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 hellodista (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-5653","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":"hellodista","purl":"pkg:pypi/hellodista","source":"MAL-2025-5653"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-07-04","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-2025-5653/"}