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MAL-2026-14069

Malicious code in kb-ai (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (edd64785c168e513c50673e9b031048ba592c1460a9a952f9430feb83bf5042d) The main purpose of the package is to demonstrate a dependency confusion attack. The rest of the functionality is just a stub.

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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

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

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Affected packages

PyPI / kb-ai

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