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MAL-2026-15863

Malicious code in uvhttp-custom (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (9d56fe693f2b6e693e195640269a9ad95c8ab5eb94c897bbc711e897177c4cc6) During installation, obfuscated code downloads and executes an executable. It appears to be a game launcher.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-uvhttp-custom

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.

- obfuscation

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Affected packages

PyPI/uvhttp-custom

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