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MALICIOUS (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-03-09(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.

2026-03-old-requests-lite

Clone of a legitimate requests library. The hidden code runs when using the requests functionality and starts a Telegram bot awaiting for remote commands.

Abuse categories

RAT

Malicious activity is typical for Remote Access Trojans (RATs).

abusing-3rd-api

Campaign uses abusing-3rd-api.

action-hidden-in-lib-usage

The malicious action is hidden in the code and starts when user interacts with it (e.g. during class initialization or by exfiltrating given credentials).

clones_real_package

The package is a clone of a legitimate package or library, but with malicious code added.

remote_commands

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

Packages in the campaign

campaign:2026-03-old-requests-lite