{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including aiassistcore.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-11414 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-2026-11414 is a malicious package in aiassistcore, published on 31 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-11414 is a malicious package: aiassistcore (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-2026-11414/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11414/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-11414","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-11414/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-11414","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package presents itself as 'AI assistant utilities' but its workspace.py implements two active attacks against the installer's Windows session. A background `Helper` thread uses Win32 `GetAsyncKeyState` over key codes 1..255 to capture every keystroke, buffers modifier state, and flushes the log to a file whose path is imported as `KEYLOGGER_DIR` / `KEYLOGGER_LOG_FILE` from `cognikit.config` — the code's own identifiers name the artifact as a keylogger. A second `_monitor_clipboard` thread polls the Windows clipboard and matches its contents against a base64-obfuscated regex table for ~18 cryptocurrency address formats (BTC, ETH, TRX, XRP, SOL, DOT, XMR, LTC, DOGE, ADA, ATOM, ALGO, NEAR, APT, SUI, TON, BCH); on a match, the clipboard is emptied and rewritten with an attacker-supplied replacement address from `self.wallet_replacements`, so funds the user attempts to send are redirected to attacker-controlled wallets. The address-regex table and chain tickers are hidden behind a `_d()` base64 decoder invoked at import time, aligned with the clipper behavior and inconsistent with the advertised purpose.\n\nIn this campaign, some packages (e.g. cognikit, aiassistcore) are pulled as dependencies and contain the C2 configuration and the malicious functionality, while others (like aichannel) provide fake functionality and silently execute malicious actions from dependencies. The malicious functionality is oriented to replace the copied cryptocurrency wallet addresses with these controlled by the attacker and downloaded from the C2 server, exfiltrating browser data, establishing a remote control over the device, placing malicious extensions in browsers. \n\nIoCs are consistent with those previously attributed to North Korea's \"Contagious Interview\" campaign. The known TTP suggest these packages are used as dependencies in malicious interview assessments or cryptocurrency projects.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-07-cognikit\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - crypto-related\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n - keylogger\n\n - clipboard-modify\n\n - exfiltration-browser-data\n\n - persistence\n\n - rat\n\n - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.","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 aiassistcore (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-11414","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":"aiassistcore","purl":"pkg:pypi/aiassistcore","source":"MAL-2026-11414"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-31","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-2026-11414/"}