Malicious code in xforpy (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: amazon-inspector (aa4d6837b829b5ed3ef1fcd1f0bf65919df53b2c02c96e7b2c63dbc3e41b965c)

The package was found to contain malicious code or consuming dependency that contains malicious code

Source: kam193 (6ebd6a0497e01ef631a2c357263bd1af23d88e8d9a9ae46fe39110571949198c)

During import, the package starts a reverse shell

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

Campaign: 2026-06-anthropy

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

Affected packages

• xforpy

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.