neurodrift

GHSA-p85x-j5p2-8r2c

Malicious code in neurodrift (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.21`

## Source: kam193 (1b632fa784b6125daaba0e4a2b9e775bc4fec21c7d41127b887f9dfe6e873ce0)
During installation, the code attempts to download and start a malicious executable.

Likely related to 2025-08-raknet-testing-package.


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


Campaign: 2026-06-easyaillm


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - malware


 - tool:mshta

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/neurodrift/MAL-2026-5797.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/neurodrift
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/neurodrift/MAL-2026-5797.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0649f50ead3695f41c1243883200bdb775410bcd8c8fb88277740a625a154e25
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1a5beab4a6facb46b4afc5f8526e1327e6c7d740ccaf34c6a921ac18eff29427/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4c99c8edfc4444f46932f14afccb2952a3850df765765f9ac793d69f318c192f/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/926e8f1a7f349ff1eef31f89fa8ffe265c30b92e310e8bea19962d38f8c32129
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p85x-j5p2-8r2c

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.21

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