tronapihelper

GHSA-6mff-7hgx-h72p

Malicious code in tronapihelper (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (8668b25d81460ff9ac1973c8f9ad6e6092350a4a08d6a4b5ba1fc827a553dc38)
Package is prepared to exfiltrate private keys, most probably for Tron cryptocurrency. There is no other purpose of the package


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


Campaign: 2025-08-tronapisync


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-crypto

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/tronapihelper/MAL-2025-191911.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/tronapihelper
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/tronapihelper/MAL-2025-191911.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6mff-7hgx-h72p

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.