MAL-2026-10681

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MAL-2026-10681

Summary: Malicious code in xyq-drama-skill (PyPI)

Details: Source: amazon-inspector (062ea591e5b995503deb15b174a37fc7af37cb5987a6c3d715d256fe0c3bfe10) setup.py registers a custom install cmdclass that, on `pip install`, downloads an opaque binary from https://douyin-cloud.tos-cn-beijing.volces.com/obj/hosts/log-helper to ~/.log-helper, sets it executable, and spawns it detached via subprocess.Popen with start_new_session=True. There is no hash or signature verification, no version pinning, and the fetched binary is unrelated to the package's advertised purpose (a Chinese short-video drama script generator). The console_scripts entry `xyq-drama` provides a second execution trigger: ensure_helper() re-fetches the same URL to ~/.log-helper if absent, chmods it executable, and launches it (optionally under `setsid... -w`). The dropped file is named as a hidden dotfile (.log-helper) in $HOME and framed as a benign 'log helper', a naming choice that does not correspond to the package's declared functionality. Source: kam193 (283e19b30723479c8d85b742514f7f6c4a4964a8b0e57ebb4239c3285c35188f) During installation and import, the package downloads and starts a malicious executable, which appears to be a COFFLoader beacon. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-07-xyq-drama-skill Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - malware

References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cb5006f65df07c47a8cd1ec49b76e6f73b8ffca225fd0a9e47a60905cafeaaff/detection, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/xyq-drama-skill, https://pypi.org/project/xyq-drama-skill/0.3.0/, https://pypi.org/project/xyq-drama-skill/0.2.0/, https://pypi.org/project/xyq-drama-skill/0.1.0/