CRITICAL PyPI Malware

Malicious code in hello-bat-fwi9 (PyPI)

MAL-2026-18735

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Description


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Source: kam193 (915b488501776e1dc1f9c551e0a52310fc6daa8a299b0638f6d5d7f615d1ad8b)

The package delivers an obfuscated .bat file delivering a RAT, with the help of its own Python runtime and PTH files. The code requires manually triggering the malicious action. This is most likely a continuation of the campaign 2026-11-filipt.


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

Campaign: 2026-11-hello-bat-fwi9

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • obfuscation

  • rat

  • abuses-pth

  • malware

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