Malicious code in jsonschema-viewer (PyPI)
The package's only function — main() in src/jsonschema_viewer/main.py, registered as the jsonschema-viewer console script — invokes os.system to fetch a shell script from http://49.232.169.67:8084/slt via curl or wget and pipes the response into sh. The fetch uses plaintext HTTP to a bare IP with no pinning, no hash verification, and an opaque payload, and bears no relationship to the package's advertised purpose ('A minimal jsonschema-viewer package'). Author metadata is the placeholder 'Your Name' with no email/URL and the README is a single empty sentence, consistent with a throwaway dropper package. Any developer who installs this package and runs the documented CLI executes arbitrary attacker-controlled code on their machine.
Package configures an entry point (command line) that executes a remote script. It then downloads a next stage malware, which acts as next dropper for a fileless malware.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-06-jsonschema-viewer
Reasons (based on the campaign):
MAL-2026-6248 is recorded against 1 package.
Published on 21 June 2026 and last revised on 23 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
IP addresses: 49.232.169.67
URLs: http://49.232.169.67:8084/slt
www.virustotal.com (Evidence)
bad-packages.kam193.eu (Web)
pypi.org (Package)
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| jsonschema-viewer | — | — |
References
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