svchost

GHSA-x52f-9p3g-cq6x

Malicious code in svchost (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (a56926028e7e253a1ffb3ba27d6514a5cbc6b23964d7e1094846a895dd322656)
Code exfiltrates sensitive crypto wallet's files and sets up a keylogger trying to catch the password to the wallet


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


Campaign: 2026-04-pckg-sv


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - crypto-related


 - keylogger


 - exfiltration-crypto


 - persistence

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/svchost/MAL-2026-2628.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/svchost
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/svchost/MAL-2026-2628.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x52f-9p3g-cq6x

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.