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🛡️ MAL-2026-3403 — textwrap-formatter

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

Malicious code in textwrap-formatter (PyPI)

Source: kam193

During installation, obfuscated code exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallet data to a hardcoded location and places a backdoor through a new authorized SSH key. Information about the placed backdoor is sent back to the attacker, and sshd configuration is adjusted to ensure the successful remote connection.

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

Campaign: 2026-05-ninja-core-utils

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
  • obfuscation
  • crypto-related
  • exfiltration-crypto
  • backdoor

Affected software

MAL-2026-3403 is recorded against 1 package.

  • textwrap-formatter

Timeline and source

Published on 9 May 2026 and last revised on 12 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Indicators of compromise

IP addresses: 144.126.142.148
URLs: http://144.126.142.148:5555/tao http://144.126.142.148:5555/report

References

bad-packages.kam193.eu (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-09
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
textwrap-formatter

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