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Malicious package

qwen-asr-pvtPyPI

Advisory published Updated

qwen-asr-pvt is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-10690) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 0.0.6). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in qwen-asr-pvt (PyPI)

MAL-2026-10690
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
pip uninstall qwen-asr-pvt

What this malware does

The package's pyproject.toml declares an unpinned runtime dependency on transformers4576, a lookalike of the widely used HuggingFace transformers library. Every internal import that would normally reference transformers has been rewritten to transformers4576 (e.g., from transformers4576 import AutoConfig, AutoModel, AutoProcessor reachable from init.py), so pip install qwen-asr-pvt forces pip to resolve and install the attacker-controlled transformers4576 from PyPI. Whatever code is published under that name executes at install/import time on the installer's machine. The lure is reinforced by publisher impersonation: the package name qwen-asr-pvt (a -pvt suffix on the real qwen-asr), the Alibaba Qwen Team author metadata, and the homepage pointing at https://github.com/Qwen/Qwen3-ASR mimic the official Qwen3-ASR project, while the shipped source is copied from that upstream with import statements rewritten to the typosquat name. Together these signals form a dependency-confusion dropper: the flagged package is the lure, and the harm arrives through the attacker-controlled transitive.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
0.0.6

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

68e8b2f6db0443a648cdf03348c8dd9351568469f84b8d61022f1ed1da2a330e

Detection & response playbook

Typosquat
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for qwen-asr-pvt (version 0.0.6).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    qwen-asr-pvt is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove qwen-asr-pvt, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.

  3. Did it already run?

    If qwen-asr-pvt 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. qwen-asr-pvt on PyPI has been identified as a malicious package (version 0.0.6 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-010685

References

Credits

  • Amazon Inspector · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks qwen-asr-pvt-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.

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