fluffy-octo-broccoliPyPI
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fluffy-octo-broccoli is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-10973) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.1.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in fluffy-octo-broccoli (PyPI)
What this malware does
fluffy-octo-broccoli ships a 10.7 MB qiwi.zip archive whose contents yield no readable filenames or strings via extraction, alongside a run.sh that unzips the archive in the current working directory, chmods start.sh executable, and runs it. The package's console-script entry (launcher.py) invokes bash run.sh via subprocess. The README's only stated purpose is 'Runs the bundled startup script when installed,' with no description of what the executed shell payload actually does. The archive's opacity prevents any inspection of the code that will run when the CLI is invoked. Execution is not automatic on pip install — the user must invoke the console script — but once invoked, the executed shell content is completely undocumented and unverifiable.
In this campaign, packages use names similar to popular services (e.g. Kimi AI) to deploy cryptominer.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-07-kimichat
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- cryptominer
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for fluffy-octo-broccoli (version 0.1.0).
If you installed it — respond
fluffy-octo-broccoli 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 fluffy-octo-broccoli 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
Campaign
References
Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) · reporter
Detect & block this
O3 blocks fluffy-octo-broccoli-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.