idnna

Source: amazon-inspector (da6f2ec3b09fbcf061a9f4ffefe1c179983ad8cdc0af705f2218280ade3c1da3)
The package publishes under a name that closely resembles the widely-used `idna` package and advertises itself as 'HTTP client utilities', but the only importable module is `djangoo` containing a trivial `hello()` function. setup.py registers a custom `install` cmdclass (`LinuxInstall`) whose post-install step base64-decodes a hidden Python payload stored in `_HOOK_B64` and executes it via `exec(compile(...))`. On Linux, the decoded payload uses `urlretrieve` to download an opaque binary named `something` from https://github.com/totti2188/8gp1Q7iZD3h4VW/releases/download/v1.3A/something — an unrelated personal GitHub account whose repository has no connection to the package's stated purpose — chmods it to 0o755, and spawns it detached via `Popen`. The download destination is not publisher-matched, the fetched artifact is unpinned by hash, and the payload is obfuscated to evade casual review. This fires automatically on `pip install` of the sdist.

Source: kam193 (c3caa6af02ad3844d721b93e94796fed92506f24517c3b990d741b147eee5acf)
Package imitates name of a popula library. During installation, obfuscated code downloads a malicious executable and starts it. It then exfiltrates at least cryptocurrency wallet data, probably more.

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-08-flasq

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- exfiltration-generic

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- obfuscation

- exfiltration-crypto