{"id":"MAL-2025-975","summary":"Malicious code in reqzest (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (32fb197467e37327d9d2b079a85faa4ffffa0cdc05c9703957a9f36de8f453e6)\nImporting the module downloads and starts an infostealer attempting to exfiltrate data and establishing persistence through autorun directory.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2024-12-reqesst\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - infostealer\n\n\n - peristence-autorun\n\n\n - typosquatting\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n\n - exfiltration-browser-data\n\n\n - exfiltration-crypto\n","modified":"2026-03-19T13:04:36.851152Z","published":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"modified_time":"2025-02-03T17:07:49Z","import_time":"2025-02-03T18:38:08.943618687Z","source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLMA-2025-00516","sha256":"92b20595bdfe882d43cf9b555add76689ff68c07aaf257e198b6798a8817d0ac"},{"modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.544768317Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqzest","sha256":"2090bcd15889edb966592ef66ccc935b92ff2bc8be830550d3cff07ea4854852"},{"modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.58367171Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqzest","sha256":"32fb197467e37327d9d2b079a85faa4ffffa0cdc05c9703957a9f36de8f453e6"},{"versions":["2.32.3","2.32.2"],"modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.791116742Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqzest","sha256":"6e61b0291c3932ff2a6225c9cb3ae5a5c5762e0162dd4c6682e8bb268311c13d"},{"versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"modified_time":"2024-12-24T18:09:49Z","import_time":"2025-12-30T22:39:04.162866649Z","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2024-12-reqesst/reqzest","sha256":"dbe06125519e641822ea152e34601107dceeb78fe424480b4dfced1ded1c61e6"},{"modified_time":"2026-03-18T12:18:20Z","import_time":"2026-03-19T12:20:23.68238044Z","source":"reversing-labs","id":"RLUA-2026-00718","sha256":"924491c6d012ac65bcae24bfc01477a710a6b71d131e338cc21163c74c17dea4"}],"iocs":{"urls":["https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/d4ftoxxvovr12f4tjh0mc/H7Glqp2Vy.exe?rlkey=z323u7r1ipm2tegn2dqlqzv9l&st=9gg48qpa&dl=1"]}},"references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0736a1f176f081a076b2cba3b54e1cb1462fe1a01be16144397bbc0d4739d01a"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/56ed3b8ca17b00ee8e7a1cb13298e5b12fd1771c24b33b9a84ba92b0610279e5"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/reqzest"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"reqzest","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/reqzest"},"versions":["2.32.2","2.32.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/reqzest/MAL-2025-975.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"},{"name":"ReversingLabs","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}