{"id":"MAL-2026-2946","summary":"Malicious code in moonbit-metrics-validator (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (e6bb44c25db578131ec69b1c961c22f67cabb0b81aae5fe9d4620194bf8d83cc)\nCampaign includes a chain of dependencies that finally exfiltrate sensitive environment variables to a hardcoded GitHub repository as exfiltration target, and in specific environments also start a reverse shell. It appears to be targeting specifically one GitHub project, where the front-end package was included in a PR.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n","modified":"2026-04-20T09:48:03.681119Z","published":"2026-04-20T08:25:08Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"e6bb44c25db578131ec69b1c961c22f67cabb0b81aae5fe9d4620194bf8d83cc","import_time":"2026-04-20T08:51:57.13224869Z","modified_time":"2026-04-20T08:25:08.605966Z","versions":["1.0.0"],"source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat/moonbit-metrics-validator"},{"sha256":"76ebf99852d91f4d88a4f717b1aa730f494cb45a9b50308a1c2a1734137bedb8","import_time":"2026-04-20T09:41:09.787891167Z","modified_time":"2026-04-20T08:25:08.605966Z","versions":["1.0.0"],"source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat/moonbit-metrics-validator"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/zongen01/wechat-editor-studio/pull/2/changes#diff-d9555f91ec2cf16d2b3d23115fe3cf6600fa8b42627de82a81da48191c54d99c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/moonbit-metrics-validator"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DiamondFrontline/wechat-editor-studio/commit/3c61484843fbc7fbeb5e81149296aa7843570ee1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"moonbit-metrics-validator","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/moonbit-metrics-validator"},"versions":["1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/moonbit-metrics-validator/MAL-2026-2946.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}