{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including fluffy-octo-broccoli.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10973 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-10973 is a malicious package in fluffy-octo-broccoli, published on 21 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10973 is a malicious package: fluffy-octo-broccoli (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10973/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10973/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10973","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10973/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10973","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"fluffy-octo-broccoli ships a 10.7 MB `qiwi.zip` archive whose contents yield no readable filenames or strings via extraction, alongside a `run.sh` that unzips the archive in the current working directory, chmods `start.sh` executable, and runs it. The package's console-script entry (`launcher.py`) invokes `bash run.sh` via subprocess. The README's only stated purpose is 'Runs the bundled startup script when installed,' with no description of what the executed shell payload actually does. The archive's opacity prevents any inspection of the code that will run when the CLI is invoked. Execution is not automatic on `pip install` — the user must invoke the console script — but once invoked, the executed shell content is completely undocumented and unverifiable.\n\nIn this campaign, packages use names similar to popular services (e.g. Kimi AI) to deploy cryptominer.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-07-kimichat\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - cryptominer","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in fluffy-octo-broccoli (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-10973","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"fluffy-octo-broccoli","purl":"pkg:pypi/fluffy-octo-broccoli","source":"MAL-2026-10973"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-21","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10973/"}