MAL-2026-18582

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Import Source

https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/zyto/MAL-2026-18582.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-18582

Published

2026-11-03T21:46:44Z

Modified

2026-11-03T23:15:03Z

Summary

Malicious code in zyto (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (817f92245d406e764c42e8038b2ea559a6bd6deb1706b80e2699e0ab724111a2)

The package ships an executable started during the building of a wheel/installation. It has been identified as malicious by some AV vendors, but primarily it is a preparation to embed a RAT as in another campaign's package.

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

Campaign: 2026-11-filipt

Reasons (based on the campaign):

The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
malware
rat

Database specific

{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/2026-11-filipt/zyto",
            "import_time": "2026-11-03T22:11:18.884541881Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-11-03T21:46:44.508623Z",
            "sha256": "817f92245d406e764c42e8038b2ea559a6bd6deb1706b80e2699e0ab724111a2",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.0",
                "0.2.1",
                "0.2.2",
                "0.2.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2026-11-filipt/zyto",
            "import_time": "2026-11-03T23:11:26.675341171Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-11-03T21:46:44.508623Z",
            "sha256": "9c7b4c21143b44acaf9f79a91ed0381fdbdb055010cc03c2d488cbcc899e8fec",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.2.0",
                "0.2.1",
                "0.2.2",
                "0.2.3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

References

Credits

- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) - REPORTER
- - https://github.com/kam193
  - https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/

Affected packages

PyPI / zyto

Package

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

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*

0.2.0

0.2.1

0.2.2

0.2.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/zyto/MAL-2026-18582.json"