MAL-2026-18583: Malicious code in ln9qw38745g (PyPI)
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Source: kam193 (e0a9c91e26a02abe14a9881a1c539a2f48d71aff120be6a4c286f36ee4cdd603) Package ships an embedded executable identified as malware by AV vendors, and is related to a previously discovered package that after a few releases swapt benign exe with a malicious RAT.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-11-filipt
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- malware
- rat