🛡️ MAL-2026-10985 — animated-octo-spoon

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

Malicious code in animated-octo-spoon (PyPI)

Source: amazon-inspector

animated-octo-spoon 0.1.0 ships a 2.6MB Linux ELF binary named 'forge' (a Rust-compiled CUDA GPU miner) plus a launcher script start.sh. The package's PyPI CLI entrypoint chmods and executes the bundled binary, which connects to the hardcoded mining pool at 45.151.62.119:3361 and submits shares to the hardcoded author wallet prl1p2jan4dvkdfkt5r3pra7z96axrxjyjcgat9w7ldetlcy9wffm569sc9ux2t via the stratum protocol (mining.subscribe / mining.authorize). The binary calls NVML and CUDA APIs (nvmlDeviceSetPowerManagementLimit, cuMemcpyHtoD_v2) to drive the installer's GPU. The pyproject description advertises the package as 'A simple Python installer program' and the README does not mention cryptocurrency mining; only the keywords hint at it. When the operator invokes the advertised CLI, the installer's GPU compute and electricity are silently routed to the author's wallet.

Source: kam193

In this campaign, packages use names similar to popular services (e.g. Kimi AI) to deploy cryptominer.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-kimichat

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • cryptominer

Affected software

MAL-2026-10985 is recorded against 1 package.

  • animated-octo-spoon

Timeline and source

Published on 21 July 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
bad-packages.kam193.eu (Web)
pypi.org (Package)
pypi.org (Package)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
animated-octo-spoon — —

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