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Malicious package

rando0192490PyPI

Advisory published Updated

rando0192490 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2025-191655) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 0.1.9, 0.2.9). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in rando0192490 (PyPI)

MAL-2025-191655
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall rando0192490

What this malware does

Packages that either reports home installation, simulate malicious activity or imitate Roblox API wrapper.

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2025-10-wangzhou183

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

Malicious versions

2 flagged
0.1.90.2.9

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

86f20d60dac456eb102a81cf6ed81bf8944658c61bfd91d27f60b3a1902ea778
1c1c34ec73580f80a1d8681f7991a2366a2e268a823848a0d26555971b62c4e7
7d5805a2205690aef1009d3bec77df6c20de9d16fc8744b8e44f279bcc2ddab8
6ba4734802a6ce14dd3587cec96a89b030fc3298922d916beda800a48e34b828
8e5263e68eb37f432ae8b0ffdf86fc0e402b939209592fa8f20edaa712554dee

Detection & response playbook

Malicious package
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for rando0192490 (2 malicious versions).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    Remove rando0192490 from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.

  3. Did it already run?

    If rando0192490 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. rando0192490 on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (versions 0.1.9, 0.2.9 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

RLMA-2025-056302025-10-wangzhou183RLUA-2026-00684

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • ReversingLabs · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks rando0192490-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.

Explore

rando0192490 (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2025-191655 | O3 Security