tiksing

GHSA-ccwr-9m93-jp26

Malicious code in tiksing (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (ef883e1ad19e5cbeafdda023c535abc9a14f84f81dce26e06d9f10bf77013ab5)
Importing the module starts Obfuscated code that downloads a well-recognized malware. In the further variations, the code that download and starts the malicious code is now a little more hidden in the functionality and starts after presenting some allegedly expected activity


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


Campaign: 2025-02-tiksing 


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - malware

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/tiksing/MAL-2025-191899.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/tiksing
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/tiksing/MAL-2025-191899.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c79b02b155cc374c36acec0550ce3f66dc139eb7fa2bf84c7f9f8bcf45526be9
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ccwr-9m93-jp26

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.1

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