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MAL-2026-13486

Malicious code in fastapii (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (ccfc3dd07e620dc6bda1b28b4d8f77932ee217aff579270c0e0c74453e215943) Package imitates name of a popula library. During installation, obfuscated code downloads a malicious executable and starts it. It then exfiltrates at least cryptocurrency wallet data, probably more.

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

Campaign: 2026-08-flasq

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- typosquatting

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

- exfiltration-generic

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- obfuscation

- exfiltration-crypto

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Affected packages

PyPI / fastapii

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References