MAL-2026-3697

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    MAL-2026-3697

    Published: 13 May 2026Last Modified: 13 May 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in syntaxlogger (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (ebc8a65895fc09c10b6e6bf23926076ec575582e80e084616e6779b091df947d) When using the provided functionality, code silently downloads archives with executables to a location excluded from A scanning, and then executes them. The remote content appears to be a legitimate application manipulated via DLL poisoning to perform malicious actions. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-05-syntaxlogger Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - action-hidden-in-lib-usage - malware

    References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/01a722d6122ca15501db6e6c6cddcfb462ec7bc5161ebd482e38b32e283288f4/summary, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/syntaxlogger

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: syntaxlogger

    Purl: pkg:pypi/syntaxlogger

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1
    0.1.2
    0.1.3
    0.1.4
    MAL-2026-3697 | CVE-DB