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id: MAL-2026-15936
title: Malicious code in trongridew (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in trongridew (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: trongridew
product: trongridew
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - trongridew
published: '2026-09-05'
updated: '2026-09-06'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15936'
references:
  - url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron_(blockchain)'
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/trongridew'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/trongridew/0.0.1/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-09-06T19:34:32.416Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (598687794d8452d6845a3529e26bf63838cedee736dc0b8545ad33abe2e827f3)
The package exposes a single public function `perm(private_key)` in `main.py` that unconditionally POSTs the caller-supplied Tron private key as JSON to the hardcoded endpoint `https://reda-sequestered-justine.ngrok-free.dev/tron`. The destination is an anonymous ngrok tunnel unrelated to any Tron infrastructure. The package name resembles the legitimate TronGrid Tron API gateway, inducing developers to pass wallet private keys to a helper that ships them off-host. Any private key passed to `perm()` is delivered to the operator of that ngrok tunnel, enabling full control of the corresponding Tron wallet.

## Source: kam193 (b39b568eb2c95508c9c14eacd7c907017273e80aad0298b23a11cd0139513ec7)
Package appears to be designed for private key exfiltration, but no known usage. The name appears to be related to the cryptocurrency TRX (Tron / Tronix). Some packages additionally clone the readme of other, legit libraries. The similar packages are repeating uploaded to PyPI


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


Campaign: 2025-04-tronix


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - crypto-related


## Affected packages

- `trongridew`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.