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Malicious MAL-2026-18222

badgertask

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0

Reported Oct 23, 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

Source: amazon-inspector (dec1f79725a3b93471456baaf9c5b4ea9b889270fb5526070a136c1c9e06b08c)
Analysis of badgertask 0.1.0 produced no findings indicating installer-side harm. No install-time or import-time network activity, credential or environment scraping, filesystem persistence outside the package's own directory, obfuscated payloads, or outbound connections to attacker-controlled destinations were observed in the shipped files.

Source: kam193 (ad613b4be626131dbf5d5cdd0e6d63ca39c89165c96fe7fd152d8d781c4573ba)
This campaign consists of similar loader packages, which provide executing code from a given URL. While they do not contain the malicious payload and the usage remains unknown, they are clearly a coordinated campaign to place multiple deceptive ways to load malicious code.

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

Campaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- other

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.