MAL-2026-847 Malicious code in requests-auth-toolkit (PyPI)

During installation, package installs a script that listens for remote commands and executes them. The script is also added to autostart configuration and disguised as system application. This package also adds a new SSH keys for further persistence

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

Campaign: 2026-02-devtools-webhook-cicd-utils

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

• peristence-autorun

• The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

• obfuscation