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Malicious MAL-2026-4183

openclaw-agent

PyPI package · versions 1.0.3

Reported May 20, 2026 · Updated May 20, 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 (b89b6a94f589218276e6dabe5accf4a6d6a9b22cd7412cce0a58069bccd76bbb)
The package is intended to create a backdoor and steal sensitive data, but the analyzed code did not finally exfiltrate the content of sensitive files.

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

Campaign: 2026-05-openclaw-agent

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-generic

- impersonation

- persistence

- peristence-autorun

- backdoor

- crypto-related

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

Indicators of compromise

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