MAL-2026-18582

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    MAL-2026-18582

    Published: 3 Nov 2026Last Modified: 3 Nov 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in zyto (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (817f92245d406e764c42e8038b2ea559a6bd6deb1706b80e2699e0ab724111a2) The package ships an executable started during the building of a wheel/installation. It has been identified as malicious by some AV vendors, but primarily it is a preparation to embed a RAT as in another campaign's package. 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

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e5a585e03e1725d5030fd4854805933d53aa86cfbbb0b3808dffcc63782ddf38/detection, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1a89eb45ed45780f16499b0f87ff3dd17db4be0988f7befbfa88224d83fccae2/detection, https://tria.ge/261103-xxcp9aez3r, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c8ecde6b3840ab32ceace277f7fd1bfc63eb87344ab9147651e3c4c11dbbac93/detection, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/zyto, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f511eff8b0cec4854856e3686a3eded0decf5fa3b04d585f9f2e951b7d13c295/detection

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: zyto

    Purl: pkg:pypi/zyto

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.2.0
    0.2.1
    0.2.2
    0.2.3