MAL-2025-982 Malicious code in selenium-plugin (PyPI)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2025-982 is a malicious package: selenium-plugin (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-2025-982/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-982/index.md)
- Package
- selenium-plugin
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-982?
MAL-2025-982 is a malicious package in selenium-plugin, published on 28 Dec 2024.
Official description
During installation or importing, the package downloads a small executable and register autostart of its. While it's hard to get the full activity of the executable, it does download what appears to be an encrypted data from GitHub repo full of suspicious files, including bitcoin miners.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2024-12-selenium-plugin
Reasons (based on the campaign):
modify-system-without-consent
peristence-autorun
dependency-confusion
What should I do about MAL-2025-982?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.