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id: MAL-2025-193012
title: Malicious code in gridifies (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in gridifies (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: gridifies
product: gridifies
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - gridifies
published: '2026-02-06'
updated: '2026-10-30'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-30T09:45:05.075896768Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-193012'
references:
  - url: 'https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-spellcheckers-2025-11-19'
  - url: >-
      https://www.aikido.dev/blog/malicious-pypi-packages-spellcheckpy-and-spellcheckerpy-deliver-python-rat
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/gridifies'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-30T19:05:36.345Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: kam193 (5b003711060bdfd51eddae8b2ec6fc00313aee8bb480e9017b5ad5d03dbf567c)
Packages contain hidden code that is effectively run during importing or using the library, and downloads second stage code. Then, a process running in background periodically connects to a remote host and waits for next code to execute


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


Campaign: 2025-11-spellcheckers


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - obfuscation


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.


## Affected packages

- `gridifies`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.