{"id":"MAL-2026-504","summary":"Malicious code in researchpoc (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (20a5e6f7ec432b0c41646f696c530fb5e46e034477a23d448de1ac3f18172bec)\nPackage mentions being a research PoC, probably for dependency confusion, but the code is obfuscated making verification of the claim impossible.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - typosquatting\n","modified":"2026-01-25T11:18:04.872457Z","published":"2026-01-25T10:54:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2026-01-25T11:06:27.079470997Z","modified_time":"2026-01-25T10:54:30.709646Z","sha256":"20a5e6f7ec432b0c41646f696c530fb5e46e034477a23d448de1ac3f18172bec","source":"kam193","versions":["99.99.9"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/researchpoc"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/researchpoc"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"researchpoc","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/researchpoc"},"versions":["99.99.9"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/researchpoc/MAL-2026-504.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}