MAL-2026-18583

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    MAL-2026-18583

    Published: 3 Nov 2026Last Modified: 3 Nov 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in ln9qw38745g (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (e0a9c91e26a02abe14a9881a1c539a2f48d71aff120be6a4c286f36ee4cdd603) Package ships an embedded executable identified as malware by AV vendors, and is related to a previously discovered package that after a few releases swapt benign exe with a malicious RAT. 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://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/f511eff8b0cec4854856e3686a3eded0decf5fa3b04d585f9f2e951b7d13c295/detection, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/ln9qw38745g

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ln9qw38745g

    Purl: pkg:pypi/ln9qw38745g

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1