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goodoldtoulasPyPI

Malicious code in goodoldtoulas (PyPI) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

MAL-2026-5271
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall goodoldtoulas

What this malware does

During pip install goodoldtoulas, setup.py invokes setup_helper() which downloads main.exe from https://cold-eu-par-1.gofile.io/download/web/deb39e07-da2d-4081-a86b-6380e555788c/main.exe (anonymous file host) into C:\MALWARE_DELETE and executes it via os.system('main.exe') (setup.py lines 6, 21, 33). The fetch is unpinned, has no hash verification, the destination is an opaque Windows binary, the host is not the publisher's domain, and the staging path name is self-incriminating. Any installer running pip install of this package on Windows fetches and executes an attacker-controlled binary at install time.

During installation, package attempts to download and run an executable imitating malicious activity.

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2026-06-goodoldtoulas

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
0.1.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

24dbb5643933ff305b2eab164e820476f645ef2b59ad7c7cdfdeb2c3c3bfb98f
463564954b6a05239e3161ff46d10a0ad605c36ec4c7bda57c08db53e4044c3d
5414e9956c915ef34d422d9eba09177fb667bba375c43e9d9b54d4f87b628712

Detection & response playbook

Destructive / sabotage
  1. Find it

    Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for goodoldtoulas (version 0.1.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging goodoldtoulas across your stack and pipelines.

  2. If you installed it — respond

    goodoldtoulas carries a destructive/sabotage payload. Remove it immediately, restore any affected data from clean backups, and verify integrity of build outputs that may have been tampered with.

  3. Did it already run?

    If goodoldtoulas 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.

  4. How O3 protects you

    O3 blocks goodoldtoulas 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

No. goodoldtoulas on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.1.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

2026-06-goodoldtoulasIN-MAL-2026-005259IN-MAL-2026-005258

References

Credits

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

Detect & block this

O3 blocks goodoldtoulas-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.

goodoldtoulas (PyPI) malicious package — MAL-2026-5271 | O3 Security