MAL-2026-2947 Malicious code in moonbit-schema-utils (PyPI)

Malicious package Published
Package
moonbit-schema-utils
Registry
PyPI

What is MAL-2026-2947?

MAL-2026-2947 is a malicious package in moonbit-schema-utils, published on 20 Apr 2026.

Official description

Campaign includes a chain of dependencies that finally exfiltrate sensitive environment variables to a hardcoded GitHub repository as exfiltration target, and in specific environments also start a reverse shell. It appears to be targeting specifically one GitHub project, where the front-end package was included in a PR.


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

Campaign: 2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

  • The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

  • exfiltration-env-variables

What should I do about MAL-2026-2947?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

Sources

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