MAL-2026-17881Critical▾ Abyssal⚠ Exploited in the wildMalicious code in py-sock2 (PyPI)
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 52.3 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 18
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
Importing py-sock2's agentaix module downloads a mutable Python file from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anonrider404/pypl/refs/heads/main/readme.txt to a temporary .py file and launches it without a visible console on Windows. Its agentaix console entry point imports the module. The remote file's Git history contains a Windows remote file management client that registers persistence through an HKCU Run entry, polls https://googleforum.pythonanywhere.com for commands, and supports file upload, download, deletion, and command execution. An earlier remote-file revision is byte-identical to the readme.txt payload reported in MAL-2026-17752 (agentaix); the 39,931-byte agentaix/gui.py is also byte-identical across that package and py-sock2. The remote file is mutable; its contents at the time of any particular victim import and actual execution on victim systems have not been established.
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The package installs a persistent job that allows the attacker for exfiltrating files and executing remote code on the victim's machine.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-10-agentaix
Reasons (based on the campaign):
files-exfiltration
peristence-autorun
The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.
rat
persistence
Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.
py-sock2Refer to the advisory for the patched release.