MAL-2026-504

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    MAL-2026-504

    Published: 25 Jan 2026Last Modified: 25 Jan 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in researchpoc (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (20a5e6f7ec432b0c41646f696c530fb5e46e034477a23d448de1ac3f18172bec) Package mentions being a research PoC, probably for dependency confusion, but the code is obfuscated making verification of the claim impossible. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - exfiltration-env-variables - exfiltration-generic - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - typosquatting

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/researchpoc

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: researchpoc

    Purl: pkg:pypi/researchpoc

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    99.99.9
    MAL-2026-504 | CVE-DB