pypi

piedefender @0.0.1

Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev August 14, 2026 at 4:33 PM UTC

Malicious

OSV ID

MAL-2025-3454

Ecosystem

pypi

Summary

setup.py is prepared to download and run an obfuscated batch script. While the script is not detected by any AV currently, in the sandbox analysis it reveals behaviour like adding exclusions to Windows Defender --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-02-pydefender Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script. - malware - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Source: kam193 (f8a30e991bd97073c50a9cdabb10842f2c5ae074c46fcd0aeff5d7917d4b56fa)

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