smart-scheduler

GHSA-vh72-rg62-j346

Malicious code in smart-scheduler (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (2792dcc5f5baaa05e1da756d9e57efedf800477f8b30e3c0b096d0baa17f59c9)
Package downloads and starts a malicious executable and hides its existence


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


Campaign: 2025-10-smart-scheduler


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - exfiltration-generic


 - obfuscation


 - The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/smart-scheduler/MAL-2025-191661.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/smart-scheduler
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/smart-scheduler/MAL-2025-191661.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vh72-rg62-j346

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

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