moonbit-locale-compat

{"modified":"2026-07-09T09:19:10Z","published":"2026-04-20T08:12:08Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2026-2945","summary":"Malicious code in moonbit-locale-compat (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (d42bb32adb1fb5f388368b9e4ab382bfbc8cd7f62dab4c70a8563a448ce9c2af)\nCampaign includes a chain of dependencies that finally exfiltrate sensitive environment variables to a hardcoded GitHub repository as exfiltration target, and in specific environments also start a reverse shell. It appears to be targeting specifically one GitHub project, where the front-end package was included in a PR.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"moonbit-locale-compat"},"versions":["0.2.1","0.2.3","0.2.4"]}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/zongen01/wechat-editor-studio/pull/2/changes#diff-d9555f91ec2cf16d2b3d23115fe3cf6600fa8b42627de82a81da48191c54d99c"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/moonbit-locale-compat"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/DiamondFrontline/wechat-editor-studio/commit/3c61484843fbc7fbeb5e81149296aa7843570ee1"}],"credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","type":"REPORTER","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"ReversingLabs","type":"FINDER","contact":["https://www.reversinglabs.com"]}],"database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"kam193","sha256":"d42bb32adb1fb5f388368b9e4ab382bfbc8cd7f62dab4c70a8563a448ce9c2af","import_time":"2026-04-20T08:51:57.122908508Z","id":"pypi/2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat/moonbit-locale-compat","modified_time":"2026-04-20T08:12:08.76337Z","versions":["0.2.1","0.2.3","0.2.4"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"d78a796f48577a4aacd59312b19e5aba799631ce77b36bebb5c64c4e523cd9b8","import_time":"2026-04-20T09:41:09.786566586Z","id":"pypi/2026-04-moonbit-locale-compat/moonbit-locale-compat","modified_time":"2026-04-20T08:12:08.76337Z","versions":["0.2.1","0.2.3","0.2.4"]},{"source":"reversing-labs","sha256":"c58559e9912d5dcd09f75a8e6c0256074d834d82f81cb7ac917a8273bde496ce","import_time":"2026-07-09T09:11:39.204137879Z","id":"RLMA-2026-02099","modified_time":"2026-07-07T11:49:45Z","versions":["0.2.1","0.2.3","0.2.4"]}]}}