Malicious code in httpz-requests (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: amazon-inspector (004770b4da0c6705f95ef2c8654fd81d37650ffacaad7160041bded02cdb7fbc)

httpz-requests exposes a Telegram bot (start_bot, run_cmd_enc, http_request) whose message handler executes arbitrary shell commands on the host running the package, granting a remote Telegram operator full command execution under the installer's user account. Documented remote commands include arbitrary shell execution (chalao, .sh <command>, .py <file>, .exec <file>), destructive filesystem operations (rm -rf <path>), single- and bulk-file exfiltration (take <file>, take all), a full-host backup mode that produces split 50MB archives with .partNNN chunking (get all), and environment-variable dumping (.printenv) — collectively enabling remote theft of filesystem contents and process-environment secrets (cloud, CI, and API credentials). The package is shipped only as compiled Cython .so files with no Python source, and self-describes obfuscation features that XOR+base64-encode command strings and disguise execution as http_request("POST",...) so plaintext commands do not appear in ps or system logs; the Telegram bot token is stored encoded and decoded at runtime by dec(). The distribution name httpz-requests and import name httpz_requests resemble the top-100 PyPI package requests while presenting a Telegram remote-shell API instead of an HTTP client, and metadata is unfilled boilerplate (author Aapka Naam <[email protected]>, homepage https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/httpz-requests).

Source: kam193 (38eff923106836997e28de6d7173a1553da126be230b341fe64f0c4c215769a2)

The package provides Telegram-based remote access to the machine it runs on. It was deliberately created and used to hack other machines, exfiltrate files and credentials. This package automatically ensures persistence and starts a malicious process on import.

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

Campaign: 2026-08-httpz-requests

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• files-exfiltration

• rat

• persistence

• uses-telegram-bot

• obfuscation

• native-extension

Affected packages

• httpz-requests

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.