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id: MAL-2026-17192
title: Malicious code in donutautosellsrc (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in donutautosellsrc (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: donutautosellsrc
product: donutautosellsrc
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - donutautosellsrc
published: '2026-09-27'
updated: '2026-09-27'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-27T14:30:14.814291078Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17192'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d03c42c275f0dbc617428441508c49ae1adcbbc95af4eeb094bca4e4f8943f3e/detection
  - url: 'https://polygonscan.com/address/0x9c0a507300fd902787bb193d80fca5ce6e1bff9a'
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/donutautosellsrc'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/donutautosellsrc/0.3.8/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/donutautosellsrc/0.3.7/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-09-27T07:19:10.031Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (ef01bfa158639900e5ad9301eb32db37e7dab821e55ccff29574b905a8e5a2cb)
setup.py invokes a module-level _trigger() that runs during pip install / PEP 517 wheel build. The trigger calls donutautosellsrc.build.run(), which downloads https://thisisafalsepositive.st/cdn/v2/9f4e7a2c1b8d.png, locates a ZIP local-file header (PK\x03\x04) or EOCD (PK\x05\x06) appended after the PNG data, extracts the trailing archive to a temp directory, and spawns the Python interpreter detached against the extracted AppHost/main.py with a DAS_STAGED environment variable used as a reentry guard. All errors are swallowed to keep the operation silent. The payload host is not the publisher's own domain, the URL is unversioned and not integrity-checked (no hash/signature), and the ZIP-appended-to-PNG packaging is a covert channel intended to disguise executable content as an image asset. A source-comment in setup.py explicitly acknowledges that module-level code runs in-process during PEP 517 wheel builds and states the intent to keep the fetch silent and non-blocking, so the dropper fires automatically on `pip install` with no further user action.

## Source: kam193 (c8af51da84b6b458a704ca222ba17f56d1158e0bfa52e0360aaeca4ae07c4cf8)
During installation package fetches code hidden in an image containing a Python application with a native extension module. This module holds an obfuscated infostealer which collects sensitive data and exfiltrates them to a C2 server retrieved from transaction history in the Polygon blockchain.


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


Campaign: 2026-09-donutautosellsrc


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - malware


 - native-extension


 - steganography


 - c2-in-blockchain


 - The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.


## Affected packages

- `donutautosellsrc`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.