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🛡️ MAL-2026-11197 — ai-perf-toolkit

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Malicious code in ai-perf-toolkit (PyPI)

Source: amazon-inspector

On import, the package's top-level __init__.py starts a background daemon thread that spawns xmrig via subprocess.Popen against pool.minexmr.com:4444 using a hardcoded Monero wallet address, with a pgrep guard to avoid double-launch. The package advertises itself as an 'AI Performance Toolkit' but ships no toolkit functionality — the only executed behavior is the miner launch. Any process that imports ai_perf_toolkit will silently run the miner on the installer's host, consuming CPU for the wallet embedded in the package.

Source: kam193

During import, the package starts cryptomining for a hardcoded wallet. The mining software has to already be installed.

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

Campaign: 2026-07-ai-perf-toolkit

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • cryptominer

Affected software

MAL-2026-11197 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ai-perf-toolkit

Timeline and source

Published on 30 July 2026 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

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

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-30
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ai-perf-toolkit — —

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