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Malicious MAL-2026-18299

claudeopuseni

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1

Reported Oct 25, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 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 (715421a3b919f086db6ad4a57d6c8d6d333b019e3a63e607be95cf3fcb7aef5d)
On import, claudeopuseni/__init__.py invokes _boot.check(), which issues an HTTPS GET to https://thisisafalsepositive.st/cdn/v2/claudeopuseni/manifest.json, reads field 'r' as an encrypted blob (falling back to the base64-encoded _payload.PAYLOAD bundled in _payload.py when the host is unreachable), decrypts it with a ChaCha20+HMAC routine in security.unsign keyed from sha256(b'claudeopuseni.2026.channel.v1'), and passes the plaintext to builtins.exec via an attribute name assembled from chr(101,120,101,99) to hide the sink from static scanners. _boot gates detonation on the presence of a real user profile (USERPROFILE/HOME containing Documents or Downloads) and on absence of DAS_STAGED=1 or claudeopuseni_TELEMETRY=0, and caches a timestamp to suppress re-execution within 6 hours — a sandbox/CI evasion wrapper. The embedded fallback blob guarantees execution of attacker-controlled code even when the remote host is unavailable. The resulting code runs with the importing developer's privileges on any machine that imports the package in a normal user environment. The package name resembles the Anthropic Claude product family, consistent with a typosquat lure.

Source: kam193 (355cfc006ca4cb062c248bf2108be828c6164ae20d12ee5c7794ab68ee351843)
During installation, obfuscated code is used to fetch code hidden in an image containing a Python application with a native extension module. This module holds an obfuscated infostealer which collects sensitive data and exfiltrates them to a C2 server retrieved from transaction history in the Polygon blockchain.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-donutautosellsrc

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- obfuscation

- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

- malware

- native-extension

- steganography

- c2-in-blockchain

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