MAL-2026-17286

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/queeuees/MAL-2026-17286.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-17286
Published
2026-09-29T20:42:09Z
Modified
2026-10-08T20:30:04Z
Summary
Malicious code in queeuees (PyPI)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (f793adc7f1d26294831307abed18a284d7834d8e4733a8b05d9863bf2d70c60d)

Queeuees 0.0.1 ships two top-level packages, Queeuees and Queues, with byte-identical init.py files. Each init.py assembles a byte blob from concatenated hex/tuple/rotated-byte literals and decodes it through bit-rotation, XOR keystream, seeded Fisher-Yates, inverse S-box, and LCG XOR stages. The result is passed to builtins.exec at import time via getattr(import('builtins'), 'exec')(payload), where the strings 'builtins' and 'exec' are hidden as byte arrays XORed with 75. Execution is triggered by a descriptor set_name hook that fires when the containing class is defined during module import, so import Queeuees or import Queues runs the decoded code. Identifiers use homoglyph-style names (_0I1IIO, _lIII1, _OI110l, _01I0) and cover-story labels ('Module signature database', 'Certificate fingerprint lookup table'), while the published metadata advertises the package as 'a very basic calculator'. The Queeuees name resembles the common word 'Queues' with duplicated vowels, and the identical payload under both names broadens the typo-catchment surface for the same import-time dropper.

Source: kam193 (1adc88dd9031dc991006afcf10242d1de3aa7994f6bcb4542faed95524d6ebe0)

Obfuscated code iterates over files in the system and adds a comment to every .py file found.

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

Campaign: 2026-09-queeuees

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • obfuscation

  • modify-system-without-consent

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "pypi/2026-09-queeuees/queeuees",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-29T21:18:15.967342437Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-29T20:42:09.114089Z",
            "sha256":  "1adc88dd9031dc991006afcf10242d1de3aa7994f6bcb4542faed95524d6ebe0",
            "source":  "kam193",
            "versions":  [
                "0.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-021233",
            "import_time":  "2026-10-08T20:20:20.340136476Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-10-08T20:08:03Z",
            "sha256":  "f793adc7f1d26294831307abed18a284d7834d8e4733a8b05d9863bf2d70c60d",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "0.0.1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / queeuees

Package

Name
queeuees
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/queeuees

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId":  "CWE-506",
        "description":  "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name":  "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files":  [
        {
            "path":  "Queeuees/__init__.py",
            "sha256":  "a11e65170d0507f8f8e3cc77ec8b3ec65f5342488a68fa8ed76a2219d68b052f",
            "tlsh":  "5ef1b6e80c2ad4b7877b85ad0cb1dc5777ae861ac3bcc9c3b7b6a548383421cd1a454a"
        },
        {
            "path":  "Queues/__init__.py",
            "sha256":  "a11e65170d0507f8f8e3cc77ec8b3ec65f5342488a68fa8ed76a2219d68b052f",
            "tlsh":  "5ef1b6e80c2ad4b7877b85ad0cb1dc5777ae861ac3bcc9c3b7b6a548383421cd1a454a"
        },
        {
            "path":  "queeuees-0.0.1.dist-info/RECORD",
            "sha256":  "2d5e0a1cc21bb6be550cee68a4f15f9630a7b97afb6a19027e9a58c6e77e6d22",
            "tlsh":  "e8f08beb1b16d21bf6a418c6ebbd5bbeec64523bb007695c76c41a10124f1e0c124c71"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "queeuees-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
            "hashes":  {
                "blake2b_256":  "c781c93efa442515b7d01cfbe4a91dc458f127f41a7519a11574e70bfa7a173d",
                "md5":  "d877c5303045a0b580aaddd1c4d2c14e",
                "sha256":  "29d827ae2e8000ac279ec90381a407205a5256891826cafe3945457808109e0b"
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/queeuees/MAL-2026-17286.json"