Malicious code in pygame-renderkit (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (5856daeb3070a9b2a6ffc42d8999ff49c63706ccb27ee683e5fcc4ff175f78f9)

During installation, the package attempts to exfiltrate sensitive environment variables and files, establish persistence and open reverse shell.

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

Campaign: 2026-08-pygame-renderkit

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• persistence

• The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

• The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.

• files-exfiltration

• exfiltration-env-variables

Affected packages

• pygame-renderkit

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.