MAL-2026-2625
Malicious code in robase-install (PyPI)
Details
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## Source: kam193 (e1076baa8ca4cabd7ae4b1caafa04658a6f7a1c80f52d25de958412ec5d11661) The package is part of a malicious campaign, but was removed before the malicious code got embedded inside.
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-03-roboat-addition
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
- Downloads and executes a remote executable.
- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
- malware
- clones-real-package
Are you affected?
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Affected packages
No fixed version published yet for robase-install (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
References
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9f14d239ab8f1289bc7aedeb67d3d72b467ee6c11b201890ab14c5c4f7c175d2/detection [EVIDENCE]
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/48b108261d5de97a42eff81cf1a60a32286f72bf8b5f130959e0daa86b783608 [EVIDENCE]
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/ef20289b52ab23ec23c5ff885a2293523ce8456fb00e3d67f1b084c28f7d282a/detection [EVIDENCE]
- https://github.com/Addi9000/roboat/blob/331166c8ea3bd080f08fe6d571202e3b47017ed7/README.md#L31 [WEB]
- https://github.com/Addi9000/roboat/commit/331166c8ea3bd080f08fe6d571202e3b47017ed7 [WEB]
- https://github.com/Addi9000 [WEB]
- https://github.com/RoCruise [WEB]
- https://www.roboat.pro/ [WEB]
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/robase-install [WEB]