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Malicious package

bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753PyPI

Advisory published Updated

bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2025-3434) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 (PyPI)

MAL-2025-3434
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753

What this malware does

During installation, the code either exfiltrate some information about the system or download and execute remote code

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

Campaign: 2025-03-blackwolf

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • exfiltration-generic

  • Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
0.1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

062bd372a936ab285231dbe3ff1244c1b1100ef7d338288350dd1952a35b2023
d7a9f63d22f84c56a43ac7bcd4d6ded7f2bf36a17f0ea0307b211cc7eedd2990
6d4b59c0779917e138aea3b1a424593ca84b58fa16a0cd75ba8a4c7523f92c87
28be32f14e54bf1f6e2278cedee5d1249ffbf10b0a4358771cd36e6b3ad1b9b7
eddb143900979d2ffe025e1d582c0ead31e5d362781489418b90eb9315a648f6

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 (version 0.1).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.

  3. Did it already run?

    If bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

RLMA-2025-024932025-03-blackwolfRLUA-2026-00140

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • ReversingLabs · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

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bbllaacckkwwoollff6ad8f753 (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2025-3434 | O3 Security