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Malicious package

rizco09PyPI

Advisory published Updated

rizco09 is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2025-191659) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 0.1.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in rizco09 (PyPI)

MAL-2025-191659
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall rizco09

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

1 flagged
0.1.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

986983be9ca12edf694072a00cce63fca93a6cacce526937e3a5d3841e87c11e
90119b923a3dc7502487c0d53594922829471c30aae25dde34eee54ab5027cd3
6d76674451d8020f28e8d4421ba6ab31dc05411a8f252fd9ee14aaeed0fa758d
3bfeafc9c42583f06eeca54d2a8004956b1f0f8aafcfd25b2c8fa88bfb815546

Detection & response playbook

Malicious package
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for rizco09 (version 0.1.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    Remove rizco09 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 rizco09 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. rizco09 on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.1.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

RLMA-2025-056352025-10-wangzhou183RLUA-2026-00724

References

Credits

  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
  • ReversingLabs · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks rizco09-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

rizco09 (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2025-191659 | O3 Security