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Malicious MAL-2026-5333

nerfstudio-gs

PyPI package · versions 99.0.0, 99.0.1, 99.0.2, 99.0.3

Reported Jun 8, 2026 · Updated Jul 8, 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 (68238d06ff6ba3548296464666c6d1390341e99d19ee053f7b36170a5e266d71)
No suspicious behaviors were observed in this package version. No install-time network activity, no credential or environment scraping, no obfuscated payloads, and no lifecycle hooks executing remote content were identified.

Source: kam193 (523b928ceb73227e96f02eb85783222da17d0e716c9c7012b4cbcafd1e787f58)
During installation or Python setup (via PTH file), the code exfiltrated all kinds of sensitive data, including env variables, browser's data, SSH keys, data from cryptocurrency extensions, shell history files, etc.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-nerfstudio-gs

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- dependency-confusion

- exfiltration-credentials

- exfiltration-browser-data

- exfiltration-crypto

- exfiltration-env-variables

- files-exfiltration

- exfiltration-ssh-keys

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

- abuses-pth

Indicators of compromise

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URLs

  • hxxps://discord[.]com/api/webhooks/1513619364555919634/5JK4RBrOvQ1GTFDIMZ66pPbYTGwlkA69p0-rwWK8eLHUSznjm9HoAIePcj006MLnx2Te other packages →