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MAL-2026-6247

Malicious code in requests-enhancer (PyPI)

Details

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## Source: kam193 (950c9d9155d6ba10a8d63c365fc6c7cc97d8bc6210165f93282d9e198ed3dd62) Malicious package with a chain of multiple manual dependencies to finally download malicious code. During import, it manually downloads a dependency from GitHub repository "Hexa-devy/netflow-utils", which then attempts to download "codexio-boop/platform_syslib". The last one contains obfuscated code that during installation connects with node22.lunes[.]host:3258 and downloads encrypted payload. The payload is executed, and it then starts another loop of connections to node22.lunes[.]host:22240 and awaits next payloads to execute. During analysis, this stage did not deliver any payload. On every stage, short-living generated tokens are used.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-requests-enhancer

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- backdoor

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

- obfuscation

- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

- The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

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Affected packages

PyPI / requests-enhancer

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References