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criticalpypi·malware·osv

Malicious code in goodoldtoulas (PyPI)

goodoldtoulas

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for goodoldtoulas (pypi).

Description


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Source: kam193 (24dbb5643933ff305b2eab164e820476f645ef2b59ad7c7cdfdeb2c3c3bfb98f)

During installation, package attempts to download and run an executable imitating malicious activity.


Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2026-06-goodoldtoulas

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Technical details

Affected versions

<function fixed() { [native code] }

Indicators

  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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