apkeep

GHSA-fvhq-qqh2-453r

Malicious code in apkeep (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (d545ff7c3c178485cfb49d0028c4c808e67d0ee0fddcb4b7b195c943bb07d888)
The package pretends to be a fork of a legitimate Rust library and uses the identity of the original authors. During usage, the obfuscated code targets information held by Kanji/Iru security tools and exfiltrates basic informations to typosquated domain.


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


Campaign: 2026-05-apkeep


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.


 - obfuscation


 - impersonation


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/apkeep/MAL-2026-3431.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/apkeep
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iru_(company)
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/apkeep/MAL-2026-3431.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fvhq-qqh2-453r

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.