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MALICIOUS (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-03-03(2).

  1. The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
  2. This is just the date of creating the catalog entry. It may not reflect the date of creation of the campaign itself.

2026-02-urllib-slim

During installation, the package starts obfuscated code that downloads and runs remote executables in specific environments. In some packages in the campaign, the code only attempts to exfiltrate some basic information using DNS requests and then likely cover tracks by installing a similarly named package from private repository

Related campaigns: 2026-02-spark-audit-notify, 2026-03-geekennedy

Abuse categories

dependency-confusion

An attempt to exploit dependency confusion

obfuscation

Code uses obfuscation techniques to hide its true purpose.

remote_executable

Downloads and executes a remote executable.

typosquatting

The package name is an typosquatting variant of a popular package.

References

Referenced resources may include blog posts about the campaign, malware analysis, sandbox reports, or other relevant information.

URLs with payloads, characteristic domains, C&C IPs, repositories with malicious code, etc.

  • hxxps://storage.googleapis.com/py-pi/python_mac

  • hxxps://storage.googleapis.com/py-pi/python_rhel

  • hxxps://storage.googleapis.com/py-pi/python_win

  • 1r.vc

  • i.1r.vc

Packages in the campaign

campaign:2026-02-urllib-slim