MAL-2025-6564 Malicious code in pipmodule823 (PyPI)
- Package
- pipmodule823
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-6564?
MAL-2025-6564 is a malicious package in pipmodule823, published on 5 Jul 2025.
Official description
If run as a module, the package downloads and executes a remote script. At the time of check, the remote script was just opening a popup; thus it's not classified as clearly malicious.
Through the package description related to "cirhenly" package, which was uploaded by "0x92nw" - see campaign 2025-07-0x92nw
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: 2025-07-pipmodule83
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
What should I do about MAL-2025-6564?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.