{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including animated-octo-spoon.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10985 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-2026-10985 is a malicious package in animated-octo-spoon, published on 21 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10985 is a malicious package: animated-octo-spoon (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-2026-10985/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10985/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10985","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10985/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10985","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"animated-octo-spoon 0.1.0 ships a 2.6MB Linux ELF binary named 'forge' (a Rust-compiled CUDA GPU miner) plus a launcher script start.sh. The package's PyPI CLI entrypoint chmods and executes the bundled binary, which connects to the hardcoded mining pool at 45.151.62.119:3361 and submits shares to the hardcoded author wallet prl1p2jan4dvkdfkt5r3pra7z96axrxjyjcgat9w7ldetlcy9wffm569sc9ux2t via the stratum protocol (mining.subscribe / mining.authorize). The binary calls NVML and CUDA APIs (nvmlDeviceSetPowerManagementLimit, cuMemcpyHtoD_v2) to drive the installer's GPU. The pyproject description advertises the package as 'A simple Python installer program' and the README does not mention cryptocurrency mining; only the keywords hint at it. When the operator invokes the advertised CLI, the installer's GPU compute and electricity are silently routed to the author's wallet.\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 animated-octo-spoon (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-10985","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":"animated-octo-spoon","purl":"pkg:pypi/animated-octo-spoon","source":"MAL-2026-10985"}],"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-2026-10985/"}