MAL-2026-2108

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    MAL-2026-2108

    Published: 23 Mar 2026Last Modified: 23 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in modelconftranslator (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (6f61fcbf30122cbf577490fab3968c6b41f95d4d23f6916a7211066bd735ff6e) During installation, the package starts obfuscated code that downloads and runs remote executables in specific environments - in older packages - attempts to exfiltrate some basic information using DNS requests and then likely cover tracks by installing a similarly named package from private repository Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-02-urllib-slim Reasons (based on the campaign): - typosquatting - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - obfuscation - dependency-confusion

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d6029cce705b3842042106efb737c8b14eb736fdbfb8d0d03c3dfbc8d6c207a5?nocache=1, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/modelconftranslator, https://github.com/loudpage5125, https://github.com/geekennedy/, https://github.com/GCLNS

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: modelconftranslator

    Purl: pkg:pypi/modelconftranslator

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    8.13.4
    MAL-2026-2108 | CVE-DB