Malicious code in mlflow-otel-instrumentor (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (596b37cefcfec9359e87bfd5663962ce80c05c8851c4f894b6b4ea294ee0bbfd)

During installation package downloads and executes an executable. The remote executable appears to be broken but suggests intentions for persistence via systemd services, cryptocurrency mining and propagating over the network. Campaign shows some similarities with 2026-08-boto4

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

Campaign: 2026-08-mlflow-otel-instrumentor

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• typosquatting

• Downloads and executes a remote executable.

• worm

• persistence

• network-scan

• cryptominer

Affected packages

• mlflow-otel-instrumentor

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.