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MAL-2026-5304

Malicious code in rsquests (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (b32959e10bc6b1df57d105a5e5d74cbe7b69660cb7a1e78185d3f5e0e0f07e10) Typosquatting package published from a compromised account with an obfuscated infostealer. The infostealer is a heavily obfuscated JavaScript code executed using Bun runtime on Python startup. It collectes all kinds of sensitive data, including API keys, credentials to package repositories, cryptocurrency assets, password manager data. Infostealer actively queries online services to collect additional secrets as well as attempts to gain persistence and spread further by publishing infected packages using collected credentials. Data are exfiltrated likely using Github. The code seems to threaten to wipe the user's data if it detects invalid GitHub tokens. Cleanup should be done with caution.

It seems to be related to the recent Mini Shai Hulud campaign.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-compr-woodpecker

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- compromised-package

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-cloud-tokens

- exfiltration-credentials

- abuses-pth

- obfuscation

- infostealer

- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

- exfiltration-crypto

- files-exfiltration

- destructive-actions

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Affected packages

PyPI / rsquests

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