MALICIOUS (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-06-02(2).
- The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
- This is just the date of creating the catalog entry. It may not reflect the date of creation of the campaign itself.
2026-06-parsimonius¶
Clone of a legitimate package with an added RAT running through a Telegram bot. It can e.g. exfiltrate env variables and execute remote commands. The malicious action does not start if the geolocation or timezone suggests a Russian area.
Abuse categories¶
RAT
Malicious activity is typical for Remote Access Trojans (RATs).
abuses-pth
Campaign uses abuses-pth.
clones_real_package
The package is a clone of a legitimate package or library, but with malicious code added.
exfiltration_env_variables
Campaign uses exfiltration_env_variables.
geo-restricted
Campaign uses geo-restricted.
remote_commands
The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.
typosquatting
The package name is an typosquatting variant of a popular package.
uses-telegram-bot
Campaign uses uses-telegram-bot.