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MAL-2026-14587

Malicious code in pygame-renderkit (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (5856daeb3070a9b2a6ffc42d8999ff49c63706ccb27ee683e5fcc4ff175f78f9) During installation, the package attempts to exfiltrate sensitive environment variables and files, establish persistence and open reverse shell.

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

Campaign: 2026-08-pygame-renderkit

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- persistence

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

- The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

- files-exfiltration

- exfiltration-env-variables

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Affected packages

PyPI/pygame-renderkit

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References