MAL-2026-1433

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    MAL-2026-1433

    Published: 15 Mar 2026Last Modified: 15 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in kvstore-pb2-grpc (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (7208dedf651be9d1e330692ef042b89e5bcae7e8aeee7f2ab400d49e7a574de8) During import, package decrypts and runs a malicious executable. The executable is hidden in an encoded and xored form in the JSON resource file. This is a follow up of the campaign 2026-03-fastapi-middleware-cors Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-03-ariadne-federation Reasons (based on the campaign): - malware - obfuscation - dependency-confusion - typosquatting

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/609d9adb5afe6fb913b605157a86e484f609b939e6755af4311ac6b824e634e2/detection, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/kvstore-pb2-grpc

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: kvstore-pb2-grpc

    Purl: pkg:pypi/kvstore-pb2-grpc

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    16.0.0
    MAL-2026-1433 | CVE-DB