saintone

GHSA-fxx5-hxqj-79ff

Malicious code in saintone (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (d762a42d55901a472c7070197cef989428ecb0140acfe02c72d719d74b430436)
Code downloads and starts an executable widely recognized as malware, then sends some results to a Telegram webhook.


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


Campaign: 2025-10-md5-en


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - malware


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/saintone/MAL-2025-191862.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/saintone
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/saintone/MAL-2025-191862.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/83f1a0723e3a529fa964eedba0558e539c3364c88f2042482da9e90eed392d4c/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fxx5-hxqj-79ff

Compromised versions (1)

= 3.0.0

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