textwrap-toolkit-stager

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (9fc85924d5672f7c91c2dd5e97c46cc48e3ae48084f906b7b0ba9d606c433fa4)
On `import textwrap_toolkit_stager`, the package's `__init__.py` unconditionally fetches Python source from `http://194.5.152.9:8080/hacks/textwrap-toolkit/textwrap_toolkit/__init__.py` via `urllib.request.urlopen` and passes the response bytes directly to `exec(code_bytes, {"__name__": "__main__"})`. The fetch uses a bare IP over plaintext HTTP, with no version pinning, no hash verification, and errors silently swallowed. Any process that imports this package executes attacker-controlled Python code from 194.5.152.9 with the full privileges of the importing user. The package's advertised purpose ('lightweight utility for advanced text wrapping') has no implementation in the shipped code — the module's sole behavior is the remote stager. The package name itself self-describes the intent ('stager').

## Source: kam193 (b5c75bdcf659eb0064e71470edd2140960c88803c906fcc5a4c9ec21b970e887)
During import, package downloads and executes an obfuscated script. The code then adds a new authorized SSH key and reports back the IP of the current environment. After that, the code also attempts to exfiltrate cryptocurrency wallet data


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


Campaign: 2026-06-textwrap-toolkit-stager


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - backdoor


 - obfuscation


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - crypto-related


 - exfiltration-crypto

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/textwrap-toolkit-stager/MAL-2026-5722.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/textwrap-toolkit-stager
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/textwrap-toolkit-stager/MAL-2026-5722.json
- https://pypi.org/project/textwrap-toolkit-stager/1.0.0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xw84-m765-gr8f

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.