workingitmehelpit

GHSA-g9qx-f3xg-gcw7

Malicious code in workingitmehelpit (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (3e553fe0eea72dc43eab2696330acd6fbb3e4de8c95529eab6298411620c0c9f)
Package installs malware identified as a backdoor or reverse shell.


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


Campaign: 2026-05-workingitmehelpit


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - malware


 - backdoor

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (38ea8dff9ef464eabbfbc1eacd769a90c65a53097308c1b76c2529b037e2041b)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'workingitmehelpit' @ 1.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/workingitmehelpit/MAL-2026-3664.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/workingitmehelpit
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/workingitmehelpit/MAL-2026-3664.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/YjYxZWU4YjUyMGRhMzg3OWQ4YWUxZWI5YjNlMDI4Y2Y6MTc3ODY5MTIzMA==
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9e99f2284f4468c70601c03f1dff0796e4ecbcacbc7f5a056aaf361ff7759f36/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g9qx-f3xg-gcw7

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

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