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Malicious MAL-2026-874

google-search-result

PyPI package · versions 2.4.3

Reported Feb 12, 2026 · Updated Feb 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 (7ada4db6050e81933dbf7a82d659e0793c79b0b8f771b3175b5ef4668563238a)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-generic

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

- typosquatting

Source: ossf-package-analysis (2532d867a44422c3a065c3ba13d63ca9fd446915c2c49aee0877aba997c0a450)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'google-search-result' @ 2.4.3 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.