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pypi · Malicious package advisory

Malware

myasicapi

GHSA-j3g8-cxr6-g73r

Malicious code in myasicapi (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.2.5`

## Source: kam193 (62067570b5217e75a025ba09e5e4f0d059439d8a7d30e056bdd501fe97e4f844)
The code and related Github project promise to monitor hardware cryptominers. However, the code additionally hides two malicious capabilities functionalities:

1. acting as an attacker-controller proxy,
2. reversed shell to the attacker-controller endpoint.

They start automatically together with the promissed simple monitoring.


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


Campaign: 2026-02-old-myasicapi


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.


 - obfuscation

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/myasicapi/MAL-2026-984.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/myasicapi
- https://github.com/MiningManufacture/MyAsic/blob/master/myasic.py#L91
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/myasicapi/MAL-2026-984.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3g8-cxr6-g73r

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 0.2.5

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