MAL-2026-16219

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    MAL-2026-16219

    Published: 16 Sept 2026Last Modified: 17 Sept 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in licloud (PyPI)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (380753d9b58e068e84b5bd87242ad31e4b833cdcc056021925aa2dcc91633b46) setup.py unconditionally collects the installer's OS name, username, and hostname and POSTs them to a hardcoded plain-HTTP bare-IP endpoint (http://182.92.143.23/collect.php) before invoking setup(). The beacon fires on `pip install` without user consent and is unrelated to the package's stated purpose (an 'LLM gateway SDK'). The destination is a bare IP over cleartext HTTP, not a documented publisher endpoint, and the payload identifies the installer host (os, user, host) with a package tag for follow-on targeting. Source: kam193 (5e2bddcfca980297be9856fbbc3eeab78253c51efe034bd92b9e8b52ed9aacc6) Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose. 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: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/licloud, https://pypi.org/project/licloud/0.2.8/, https://pypi.org/project/licloud/0.2.7a0/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: licloud

    Purl: pkg:pypi/licloud

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.2.7a0
    0.2.8