{"id":"MAL-2026-1433","summary":"Malicious code in kvstore-pb2-grpc (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (7208dedf651be9d1e330692ef042b89e5bcae7e8aeee7f2ab400d49e7a574de8)\nDuring import, package decrypts and runs a malicious executable. The executable is hidden in an encoded and xored form in the JSON resource file.\n\nThis is a follow up of the campaign 2026-03-fastapi-middleware-cors\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-03-ariadne-federation\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - malware\n\n\n - obfuscation\n\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n\n - typosquatting\n","modified":"2026-03-15T10:21:52.533242Z","published":"2026-03-15T09:36:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2026-03-15T10:10:46.362562444Z","modified_time":"2026-03-15T09:36:30.05829Z","id":"pypi/2026-03-ariadne-federation/kvstore-pb2-grpc","source":"kam193","sha256":"7208dedf651be9d1e330692ef042b89e5bcae7e8aeee7f2ab400d49e7a574de8","versions":["16.0.0"]}]},"references":[{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/609d9adb5afe6fb913b605157a86e484f609b939e6755af4311ac6b824e634e2/detection"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/kvstore-pb2-grpc"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kvstore-pb2-grpc","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/kvstore-pb2-grpc"},"versions":["16.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/kvstore-pb2-grpc/MAL-2026-1433.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}