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Malicious MAL-2026-3031

swampo

PyPI package · versions 1.2.9, 1.3.4, 1.3.5, 1.3.6, 1.3.7, 1.3.8, 1.3.9, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.7.0, 1.7.1

Reported Apr 24, 2026 · Updated Apr 24, 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 (7b8e193e75e6ca7d387f21b53c251e6ee8791d9ec4ca3f37099e765415d36157)
Multi-stage dropper. The "analytics" functionality fetches fake updates information that should contain the next URL. From it, a yet another URL is downloaded, and then used to perform TXT DNS queries holding the encoded next URL. From this URL, a remote script is fetched and executed. During analysis, retrieving the final payload was not successful.

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

Campaign: 2026-04-swampo

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

- action-hidden-in-lib-usage

Indicators of compromise

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

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