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Malicious MAL-2026-18767

supercolor-tui

PyPI package · versions 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.1.4

Reported Nov 8, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 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 (9505cdfb58ccf88da6eb5f64f02c194dbfbf1f149f1bde76118d8cab52a6760b)
The package advertises itself as a terminal color helper, but every documented call into the Color API (Color.paint, Color.print, Color.__call__, e.g. colors.red.print(...)) invokes an internal _run_payload() routine. On Windows this routine attempts UAC elevation, disables Microsoft Defender via PowerShell (Set-MpPreference -DisableRealtimeMonitoring, Stop-Service WinDefend/WdNisSvc/Sense/SecurityHealthService, Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath pointing at the staging folder) and writes Defender-disabling registry policies (DisableAntiSpyware), then downloads an opaque executable from a Discord CDN URL (cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/.../bedwars.exe) to %TEMP%\SolaceRuntime\bedwars.exe and spawns it detached. The attacker-controlled host is a mutable third-party CDN, the payload is unverified, and the dropper is wired into the library's normal, README-documented entry points so any downstream Windows user of the library executes it. The color-helper framing is a cover story: a TUI color library has no legitimate need to disable AV or fetch and execute Windows binaries.

Source: kam193 (9798fa32337256d29d4b551193b6aa6817601034ce787bae4d09d7d6636d813b)
Package hides a code downloading and installing an infostealer.

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

Campaign: 2026-11-chromacli

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- malware

- infostealer

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage

Indicators of compromise

Shown defanged and not clickable. Search any indicator to find other packages using it.

URLs

  • hxxps://cdn[.]discordapp[.]com/attachments/1560347732839891076/1562446203021566032/bedwars[.]exe?ex=6af1172b&is=6aefc5ab&hm=544b5aacd95a3a0cba1db54a7e7adba093e4b68b8e37c9ec7af805e8fc5e960b& other packages →
  • hxxps://store-eu-par-12[.]gofile[.]io/download/web/a2a60e90-dea4-4c6c-9a02-be5ede78dc08/solace[.]exe other packages →