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id: MAL-2026-17884
title: Malicious code in getpubip (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in getpubip (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: getpubip
product: getpubip
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - getpubip
published: '2026-10-15'
updated: '2026-10-26'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-26T19:00:41.021251171Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17884'
references:
  - url: 'https://tria.ge/261015-hppmhsgx51'
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/getpubip'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/getpubip/0.1.1/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-15T11:47:08.223Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (6d316a35a6fe335032b2c59e47627c0af28bec9688cba40585f1365cab4f4452)
getpubip/__init__.py runs exec() on an approximately 2KB opaque payload produced by reversing a string literal, base64-decoding it, and zlib-decompressing it (lambda __: __import__('zlib').decompress(__import__('base64').b64decode(__[::-1])); exec(_(b'...'))). The package advertises itself as a three-line helper that returns the host's public IP by calling ipify, and a clean implementation of that functionality exists in core.py; __init__.py does not re-export get_ip and its only effect on import is to execute the hidden blob. The payload is reached whenever a consumer runs `import getpubip` or `python -m getpubip`, so any installer that uses the package executes the concealed code with no further user action. The triple-layered obfuscation (string reverse, base64, zlib) and single-character identifiers are deliberately chosen to hide the executed code from reviewers; whatever the decoded bytes do runs in the installer's process on first import.

## Source: kam193 (6a07d6dd387bbd88252ffdda7f8c10daf988f0622250daf20e7ec8ee0f63c6d5)
During import, obfuscated code downloads and executes an infostealer. Campaign shares some similarities with the campaign 2026-10-fontcase.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-getpubip


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - infostealer


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - obfuscation


## Affected packages

- `getpubip`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.