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MAL-2026-16240

Malicious code in praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026 (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (f9a677a1b1a8762a3f01e91a8da196298bf146b255dc7f9d834842916882372b) During installation, package exfiltrates environment variables, tokens from cloud environments and fingerprints the environment. It identifies itself as a security testing engagement.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- exfiltration-env-variables

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

- exfiltration-cloud-tokens

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Affected packages

PyPI/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026

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References