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id: MAL-2026-6749
title: Malicious code in ipa-user-collector (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in ipa-user-collector (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: ipa-user-collector
product: ipa-user-collector
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - ipa-user-collector
published: '2026-07-03'
updated: '2026-07-05'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6749'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/d47a2d1b96df84b10263a99866b865421b334448432d1b447b82c76253bcbe86/detection
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/ipa-user-collector'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:54.801Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: kam193 (2df148f70b40274f48d5bc4d8ea5a97bb434a743cf7a5c1b271a5a5cd7fa3907)
During installation the obfuscated code downloads a malicious executable from a remote location. Code is designed to survive different blocks: first, there is an attempt to download the executable from one of five Cloudflare Workers. If it's not successful, the code falls back to download using DNS: first, it gets a TXT record from c.lin.dl.wel1[.]ru. This record returns a number, which is then used to iterate over domains in the form <0...n>.lin.dl.wel1[.]r and reconstruct the encoded executable from their TXT records. The executable is finally saved under a partially random name, executed, and removed after execution. The Linux executable contacts a few domains, but there is no more detailed information about its behavior available.


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


Campaign: 2026-07-haproxy-config-client


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - dependency-confusion


 - other


 - malware


 - covering-tracks


 - targetted-attack


 - data-stored-in-dns


## Affected packages

- `ipa-user-collector`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.