tui-ascii-art

{"modified":"2026-03-20T15:31:34Z","published":"2026-03-20T15:31:34Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2026-2117","summary":"Malicious code in tui-ascii-art (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (4358458e150317ab394c6dd2d0137a8c395a32bae309cc1bfd829f123dab1393)\nThese packages are used as build dependencies of malicious packages in newer waves of the campaign 2026-02-urllib-slim. They are used to split the malicious action between dependencies and are not malicious alone, but are used together to: exfiltrate information through DNS, collect information about the processes and covering tracks by installing packages from local private repositories.\n\nPackage nspack additionally notifies upon importing a domain known for malicious activity with the package and hostname.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-03-geekennedy\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"tui-ascii-art"},"versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1"]}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/tui-ascii-art"}],"credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","type":"ANALYST","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]}],"database_specific":{"iocs":{"domains":["1r.vc","gcloudns.net"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/2026-03-geekennedy/tui-ascii-art","import_time":"2026-03-23T14:52:56.137554894Z","modified_time":"2026-03-20T15:31:34.907475Z","sha256":"4358458e150317ab394c6dd2d0137a8c395a32bae309cc1bfd829f123dab1393","source":"kam193","versions":["0.1.0","0.1.1"]}]}}