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Malicious MAL-2026-3702

async-http-tools

PyPI package · versions 0.70.125

Reported May 13, 2026 · Updated May 13, 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 (85e8a68bad6595a817f1dabed757662e2a04cfec7b45a86d9bfd61a7a78d14d1)
During installation, package exfiltrates some basic info to a GitHub issue comment, and then attempt to set up a persistent infostealer focused on exfiltrating crypto wallets and browsers data. Likely continuation of 2026-05-py-requests

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

Campaign: 2025-06-alembic-util

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

- crypto-related

- Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

- exfiltration-browser-data

- exfiltration-crypto

- persistence

- typosquatting

Indicators of compromise

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URLs

  • hxxps://api[.]github[.]com/repos/guellemilb/c2-relay/issues/1/comments other packages →
  • hxxps://gist[.]githubusercontent[.]com/guellemilb/631fb6348967d9d475125edf67048c0e/raw/build_utils[.]py/raw/pyrat_light[.]py other packages →
  • hxxps://gist[.]githubusercontent[.]com/guellemilb/631fb6348967d9d475125edf67048c0e/raw/build_utils[.]py other packages →