joyboyw

GHSA-hmw5-chpx-p5rm

Malicious code in joyboyw (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (36ac711534f46e41704c145912a7a6c3a51f64bb1888469e0730768e00865242)
Contains a function to silently download malware


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


Campaign: 2025-11-joyboyw


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - 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/joyboyw/MAL-2025-192322.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/joyboyw
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/joyboyw/MAL-2025-192322.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c24864444f3210b1db7dfe90c03d50cba8a433bd51bed25fb280aa765159b0a8/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hmw5-chpx-p5rm

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.1

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