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Malicious package

django-auth-middleware-plusPyPI

Advisory published Updated

django-auth-middleware-plus is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-6230) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 99.99.99). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in django-auth-middleware-plus (PyPI)

MAL-2026-6230
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall django-auth-middleware-plus

What this malware does

On import, django_auth_middleware_plus/init.py spawns a daemon thread that POSTs a JSON payload containing the host's hostname, username, cwd, environment variables matching key/secret/token/pass/auth/api, and the contents of ~/.env, ~/.bashrc, ~/.config,.env, and../.env to a hardcoded plaintext HTTP endpoint at http://4.210.177.128:8080/callback. The same import path reads ~/.pypirc and ~/.netrc (up to 200 bytes each) and ships them in the same payload, leaking the installer's PyPI publishing token and machine credentials to the attacker. A _persistence() routine appends an alias overriding django to pip install django-auth-middleware-plus --upgrade into ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, and ~/.profile so subsequent shell sessions re-fetch and re-trigger the C2 callback. The package's METADATA falsely claims Home-page https://www.djangoproject.com/ and Author-email [email protected] to impersonate the Django Project — the package name and metadata are a typosquat lure for the genuine Django ecosystem.

During import, package exfiltrates sensitive enviromental variables, configuration files and establishes persistence via entry in .bashrc and similar files.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-django-auth-middleware-plus

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • dependency-confusion

  • exfiltration-credentials

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • persistence

  • files-exfiltration

Malicious versions

1 flagged
99.99.99

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

2ccfb7651ac3c66adcbbe9a066a65768acc678ce22d14f0eb34f25786af6374a
6cf58978ba5eec5220b4b4d85966efff31d31d164ff103f98dfd627381e061ec

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer

  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for django-auth-middleware-plus (version 99.99.99).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    django-auth-middleware-plus 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.

  3. Did it already run?

    If django-auth-middleware-plus was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. django-auth-middleware-plus on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 99.99.99 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2026-06-django-auth-middleware-plusIN-MAL-2026-007101

References

Credits

  • Amazon Inspector · finder
  • Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) · reporter

Detect & block this

O3 blocks django-auth-middleware-plus-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

Malware detection Runtime egress monitoring

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