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MAL-2026-10091

Malicious code in qlinforge (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (8952681c2680f17702d34d053b0af1af1ff8e27a18338b3e84cad5de7e661919) During installation, the package downloads and executes suspicious executables as well as establishes persistence using PTH files.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-qlinforge

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.

- abuses-pth

- persistence

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Affected packages

PyPI / qlinforge

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