MAL-2026-18395

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    MAL-2026-18395

    Published: 29 Oct 2026Last Modified: 30 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in bq-helix-build-hook-6ade983e (PyPI)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (d2ff13fe63e15fdf4130e7219776edbe4d34fe2c2b83011099a0ddec9c10ebf6) On `pip install`, setup.py collects the full process environment (dict(os.environ)), process command lines, and /proc/self/{status,cgroup,mountinfo,fd}, and queries the GCP instance metadata service at http://169.254.169.254/computeMetadata/v1/ (with the required `Metadata-Flavor: Google` header) for the default service account's token, email, scopes, and project id. The collected JSON blob is sent to a hardcoded remote endpoint at 34.45.253.92 — both as an HTTP POST to http://34.45.253.92:8080/bq-sdist-hook-... and over a raw TCP socket to 34.45.253.92:1234. The destination IP is unrelated to any legitimate publisher infrastructure and the behavior fires automatically from the build backend during installation. Source: kam193 (ee26602dfa25f574d440b2c1e8ef0a9516fdfb5db4b59f995b88784332476413) During installation the code collects information from the environment, including credential files, environment variables, data from cloud metadata endpoints, and finally exfiltrates them. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-10-bq-helix-recon Reasons (based on the campaign): - abuses-pth - exfiltration-cloud-tokens - exfiltration-generic - exfiltration-env-variables - exfiltration-credentials

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/bq-helix-build-hook-6ade983e, https://pypi.org/project/bq-helix-build-hook-6ade983e/0.1.0/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bq-helix-build-hook-6ade983e

    Purl: pkg:pypi/bq-helix-build-hook-6ade983e

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0