qdatainstaller

GHSA-3v73-5cxp-c8p3

Malicious code in qdatainstaller (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (e4ee574ced05e27b63477cb84af816e02ae259c67246f4f31ff63819e7e1048e)
Package is designed to download and execute a remote script, which then downloads and runs a malicious executable


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


Campaign: 2025-12-pdatainstaller


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - malware


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/qdatainstaller/MAL-2026-27.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/qdatainstaller
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/qdatainstaller/MAL-2026-27.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/NzcxYTcyZDQxMzc0ZDUwNTk4MDY4OTE3Y2U3MzdhNDY6MTc2NzQwMTQwOQ==
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3v73-5cxp-c8p3

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.1

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