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: kam193 (817f92245d406e764c42e8038b2ea559a6bd6deb1706b80e2699e0ab724111a2)
The package ships an executable started during the building of a wheel/installation. It has been identified as malicious by some AV vendors, but primarily it is a preparation to embed a RAT as in another campaign's package.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-11-filipt
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- malware
- rat