pyqt6darktheme

GHSA-3924-77wf-x4wr

Malicious code in pyqt6darktheme (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (8cd6d16792d681b160ae1e11b3f698d8fd3004cd6019704008ad1c649fbe6f67)
Package downloads and runs a remote executable, which was found to downloads further exes and starting coine mining


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


Campaign: 2026-07-pyqt6darktheme


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - cryptominer


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware


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

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyqt6darktheme/MAL-2026-6960.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyqt6darktheme
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyqt6darktheme/MAL-2026-6960.json
- https://tria.ge/260708-eg92psat5t
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1f1963b8ccabbb9aaae9ce93b78d91f4f01faf0a21aed8e71b2adece16f8d5e6/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/93be0d295af944feef85c8694f88a50b660f106a5ed18300252a72d8b43b69de/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3924-77wf-x4wr

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.