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MAL-2026-16275

Malicious code in requests-triwes (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (fa01be0759de95b7a1628930718f7b3bf372eff0c777aace419196e327e77078) During installation, package starts a reverse shell.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-requests-triwes

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

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

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Affected packages

PyPI/requests-triwes

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