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criticalpypi·malware·osv

Malicious code in goodoldtoulas (PyPI)

goodoldtoulas

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for goodoldtoulas (pypi).

Description

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

Indicators

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

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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