trickery

{"modified":"2026-05-13T18:41:37Z","published":"2026-05-13T18:41:37Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2026-3698","summary":"Malicious code in trickery (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (3ad5df28c8d5f5afa377d6b54a7eac1d3110610783c7e62fbd084a0bd49baac5)\nPackage contains code to install a backdoor - and additionally to a user-controlled backdoor, it also installs the second, with own C2 server. It's not automatically activated. Once started, it can execute commands from C2 and exfiltrate data.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-06-old-trickery\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - backdoor\n\n\n - files-exfiltration\n\n\n - peristence-autorun\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n\n - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.\n","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"trickery"},"versions":["1.0.0","1.0.1"]}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/socioware1/trickery"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/trickery"}],"credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","type":"REPORTER","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]}],"database_specific":{"iocs":{"urls":["https://github.com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/config.pyw","https://github.com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/socio_req","https://github.com/socioware1/trickery/raw/refs/heads/main/archive/trickery.rar"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/2025-06-old-trickery/trickery","import_time":"2026-05-13T20:11:04.545856048Z","modified_time":"2026-05-13T18:41:37.827451Z","sha256":"3ad5df28c8d5f5afa377d6b54a7eac1d3110610783c7e62fbd084a0bd49baac5","source":"kam193","versions":["1.0.0","1.0.1"]}]}}