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MAL-2026-17196

Malicious code in donutpromotion (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (26201e7959d7a736440fa6fb22ba7b9911c269b08460374d0a2db307ba6b0273) During installation, obfuscated code is used to fetch code hidden in an image containing a Python application with a native extension module. This module holds an obfuscated infostealer which collects sensitive data and exfiltrates them to a C2 server retrieved from transaction history in the Polygon blockchain.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-donutautosellsrc

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- Downloads and executes a remote executable.

- obfuscation

- malware

- native-extension

- steganography

- c2-in-blockchain

- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

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Affected packages

PyPI/donutpromotion

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References