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Malicious MAL-2026-26

pdatainstaller

PyPI package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Jan 2, 2026 · Updated Feb 23, 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: kam193 (671a0098c14338197a26cb64b7f5c35c0e741f3151313fff784bc7a4862ad579)
Package is designed to download and execute a remote script, but the script itself seems to be broken (missing or wrong URLs). It's most probably a test before next packages with real malicious content.

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

Campaign: 2025-12-pdatainstaller

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

- malware

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Indicators of compromise

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

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