pypi

mainx @1.0

Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev August 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM UTC

Malicious

OSV ID

MAL-2025-6540

Ecosystem

pypi

Summary

While described as educational package to simulate post-exploitation environment, the malware is active and once started, automatically attempts to exfiltrate sensitive data (credentials, cookies, etc.) and places a Discord implant. The remote target is hard coded in the code. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-06-mainx Reasons (based on the campaign): - obfuscation - infostealer - files-exfiltration - exfiltration-credentials - exfiltration-browser-data - peristence-autorun - The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

Source: kam193 (6a77aad2f42165ec9582f04fffab948f6a1125564e34f4d09c8d089b2708d8d2)

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