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id: MAL-2026-17916
title: Malicious code in pyrechoasr (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in pyrechoasr (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: pyrechoasr
product: pyrechoasr
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - pyrechoasr
published: '2026-10-17'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T14:30:35.711910380Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17916'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyrechoasr'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/pyrechoasr/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-18T11:51:09.853Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (9b2a02d42b12227c9d61eaa5f23ffb432599d04d44adc2d7be9fae0589363d98)
Package pyrechoasr version 0.1.0 on PyPI contains 6 files. No install-time or import-time network I/O, credential access, subprocess execution of fetched content, or other installer-facing harmful behavior was identified in the shipped contents. No lifecycle hooks or top-level side effects of concern were observed.

## Source: kam193 (abd16e8f67cf00b05cd9b944eaae2569a33cd419f50b3df499f203ea838fc447)
The package belongs to a series of packages falsely advertising 'audio-analysis profiles' loader. In fact, the only purpose is to execute remote code, but the URL is not embedded in the package. It is likely a continuation of the coin-mining campaign 2026-10-voxeval which used similar wording.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-emberlytts


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - other


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


## Affected packages

- `pyrechoasr`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.