netspear

GHSA-36pw-2m7q-3h4h

Malicious code in netspear (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.7`

## Source: kam193 (015d4e7a345166ce5767408055a810a394e59a8c40b1a3c459ee006efa647e0a)
Code download and runs an executable, which is widely recognized as malware. The system is also configured to run it on startup, and the file is saved in paths attempting to look as a system file.


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


Campaign: 2025-05-requestpackat


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware


 - peristence-autorun

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/netspear/MAL-2025-5121.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/netspear
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/netspear/MAL-2025-5121.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b9a07b5b22c1f49f2f28e5cb4c9854557e3ac8bf9d1a7c348236f6f226f7f9ab
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-36pw-2m7q-3h4h

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.7

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.