MAL-2026-17197
Malicious code in coinscan (PyPI)
Details
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## Source: kam193 (d403e54ce25ec07ec9979ba880af4930ded34a3702e9829c69a8e67279c26d59) 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
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