# MAL-2025-961: Malicious code in python-bitget-connect (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `python-bitget-connect` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 12 Dec 2024

## What is MAL-2025-961?

MAL-2025-961 is a malicious package in python-bitget-connect, published on 12 Dec 2024. 

### Official description

Importing the module starts an obfuscated PowerShell code, which downloads and executes a remote script. On Windows, the script appears to just start the calculator. On MacOS, the file is identified as a Spark RAT by multiple vendors. Package impersonate the legitimate  "python-bitget".

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2024-12-python-bitget-api

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - typosquatting

 - obfuscation

 - clones-real-package

 - dependency-confusion

 - crypto-related

 - impersonation

 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-961?

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-2025-961 is a malicious package: python-bitget-connect (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-2025-961/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-961/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-961

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-961/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.