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fastercodingPyPI

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fastercoding is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-6208) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in fastercoding (PyPI)

MAL-2026-6208
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall fastercoding

What this malware does

The package exposes a single public function run() (re-exported from init.py) which, on Windows, downloads BackgroundSyncService.exe from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manhhungdev0603/kl.py/refs/heads/main/BackgroundSyncService.exe, writes it to %PROGRAMDATA%\BackgroundSyncService, and executes it via subprocess.Popen([local_filepath], shell=True) (fastercoding/core.py lines 7 and 21). The source is a personal GitHub user's repo named 'kl.py' on the mutable main branch with no hash or signature verification, and the dropped binary is given a system-service cover name ('BackgroundSyncService') and staged into PROGRAMDATA — shape consistent with a keylogger/persistence dropper. Package metadata is empty (no description, author, or homepage) and the package contains no other functionality — the dropper is the package's entire purpose. Any caller of the only advertised entrypoint executes attacker-controlled, mutable, unsigned code on their machine.

The package contains code to download and run a malicious executable. The executable contains a remote access trojan controlled via Telegram bot, with capabilities like a keylogger, screen recording, command execution. It also attempts to gain persistence via startup registry keys.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-fastercode

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

  • peristence-autorun

  • uses-telegram-bot

  • keylogger

  • rat

  • spyware-like

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1.0.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

9dd11cd3c57bf0f46158fd84d7243184d4bd5780e17f49d90f1721e6d0a8f8a1
1c302e448868fcff3110a45d20b53d9d887cfb5aa31bb66df90702f2767246b4

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for fastercoding (version 1.0.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    fastercoding 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 fastercoding 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. fastercoding on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2026-06-fastercodeIN-MAL-2026-007404

References

Credits

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

Detect & block this

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

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fastercoding (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2026-6208 | O3 Security