MAL-2026-3031 Malicious code in swampo (PyPI)

Multi-stage dropper. The "analytics" functionality fetches fake updates information that should contain the next URL. From it, a yet another URL is downloaded, and then used to perform TXT DNS queries holding the encoded next URL. From this URL, a remote script is fetched and executed. During analysis, retrieving the final payload was not successful.

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

Campaign: 2026-04-swampo

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

• action-hidden-in-lib-usage