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Malicious MAL-2026-17883

py-worm

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1

Reported Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Importing py-worm's `agentaix` module downloads a mutable Python file from `https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anonrider404/pypl/refs/heads/main/readme.txt` to a temporary `.py` file and launches it without a visible console on Windows. Versions 0.1.0 and 2.0.0 do this directly during import; version 2.0.1 starts a daemon thread during import to perform the same action. The package's CLI and GUI entry points import this module. The remote file's Git history contains a Windows remote file management client that registers persistence through an HKCU Run entry, polls `https://googleforum.pythonanywhere.com` for commands, and supports file upload, download, deletion, and command execution. An earlier remote-file revision is byte-identical to the `readme.txt` payload reported in MAL-2026-17752 (`agentaix`); the 39,931-byte `agentaix/gui.py` is also byte-identical across that package and all py-worm releases. The remote file is mutable; its contents at the time of any particular victim import and actual execution on victim systems have not been established.

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Source: amazon-inspector (8fd8563e18894311d651012477647efc1a169f465a9cf89db5e7245b0b6ffcc9)
The package name 'py-worm' is suggestive of self-propagation behavior, but no a static rule fired and no traced code behavior was captured for this version. Without concrete evidence of credential harvest, outbound exfiltration, install-time code execution, or publish-token enumeration in the shipped files, the package cannot be classified as a confirmed supply-chain attack from the available signals alone.

Source: kam193 (d4c5838f30da7c1f684305ec0704ef37e963793449390f5b13a4e06212ccbd9d)
The package installs a persistent job that allows the attacker for exfiltrating files and executing remote code on the victim's machine.

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

Campaign: 2026-10-agentaix

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- files-exfiltration

- peristence-autorun

- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

- rat

- persistence

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

Indicators of compromise

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Domains

URLs

  • hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/anonrider404/pypl/9395c5802b11bc088925d7adf6e2f66b8b0709fd/readme[.]txt other packages →
  • hxxps://raw[.]githubusercontent[.]com/anonrider404/pypl/refs/heads/main/readme[.]txt other packages →
  • hxxps://github[.]com/anonrider404/pypl other packages →