{"id":"MAL-2026-874","summary":"Malicious code in google-search-result (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (7ada4db6050e81933dbf7a82d659e0793c79b0b8f771b3175b5ef4668563238a)\nGeneric campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.\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\n## Source: ossf-package-analysis (2532d867a44422c3a065c3ba13d63ca9fd446915c2c49aee0877aba997c0a450)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'google-search-result' @ 2.4.3 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.\n","modified":"2026-02-13T01:03:27.461500Z","published":"2026-02-12T23:27:54Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"ossf-package-analysis","import_time":"2026-02-12T23:43:23.593303514Z","modified_time":"2026-02-12T23:27:54Z","sha256":"2532d867a44422c3a065c3ba13d63ca9fd446915c2c49aee0877aba997c0a450","versions":["2.4.3"]},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/google-search-result","import_time":"2026-02-13T00:37:00.243377192Z","modified_time":"2026-02-12T23:35:33.50405Z","sha256":"7ada4db6050e81933dbf7a82d659e0793c79b0b8f771b3175b5ef4668563238a","versions":["2.4.3"],"source":"kam193"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/google-search-result"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"google-search-result","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/google-search-result"},"versions":["2.4.3"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/google-search-result/MAL-2026-874.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"ANALYST"},{"name":"OpenSSF: Package Analysis","contact":["https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis","https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"],"type":"FINDER"}]}