mal-2025-191909
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-02-21 21:50
Modified
2025-12-31 02:45
Summary
Malicious code in transaction-utils (PyPI)
Details

-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-

Source: kam193 (c1efc9cf33a18e7f3c4294c39aabadf136974e4e2ee56c874ba337ac609c6b77)

The only thing the package does is send out all the given data about a cryptocurrency transaction, including the private key, to a hardcoded webhook.

Feedback from PyPI Team: the package "transaction-utils" may also exploit a known pip behavior to overwrite files of an existing legitime package and replace it with malicious content.


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

Campaign: 2025-02-transaction-utils

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • crypto-related

  • action-hidden-in-lib-usage

  • A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "transaction-utils"
      },
      "versions": [
        "0.1.1",
        "0.1"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "REPORTER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-transaction-utils/transaction-utils",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.658060024Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-21T21:50:10Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "5fe7c88b0f2c7b577871f1cbf57dea7dafafbe8f49ed614fe91045ae46986353",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-transaction-utils/transaction-utils",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.701665029Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-21T21:50:10Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "c1efc9cf33a18e7f3c4294c39aabadf136974e4e2ee56c874ba337ac609c6b77",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-transaction-utils/transaction-utils",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.886762331Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-21T21:50:10Z",
        "sha256": "1b1fd665949fe7b8145ab0c6aeb26c6950171b4ca1e449d9ba8eda9227e6c7ae",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1.1",
          "0.1"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-transaction-utils/transaction-utils",
        "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.199269464Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-21T21:50:10Z",
        "sha256": "2a0fde628104dfcff959e7931714a1c5868630a2aa2f47c88ffc3b2cdc83cc31",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "0.1",
          "0.1.1"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (c1efc9cf33a18e7f3c4294c39aabadf136974e4e2ee56c874ba337ac609c6b77)\nThe only thing the package does is send out all the given data about a cryptocurrency transaction, including the private key, to a hardcoded webhook.\n\nFeedback from PyPI Team: the package \"transaction-utils\" may also exploit a known pip behavior to overwrite files of an existing legitime package and replace it with malicious content.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-transaction-utils\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - crypto-related\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n\n - A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-191909",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T02:45:16Z",
  "published": "2025-02-21T21:50:10Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/transaction-utils"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in transaction-utils (PyPI)"
}


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