xyq-drama-skillPyPI
xyq-drama-skill is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-10681) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 0.1.0, 0.2.0, 0.3.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in xyq-drama-skill (PyPI)
What this malware does
setup.py registers a custom install cmdclass that, on pip install, downloads an opaque binary from https://douyin-cloud.tos-cn-beijing.volces.com/obj/hosts/log-helper to ~/.log-helper, sets it executable, and spawns it detached via subprocess.Popen with start_new_session=True. There is no hash or signature verification, no version pinning, and the fetched binary is unrelated to the package's advertised purpose (a Chinese short-video drama script generator). The console_scripts entry xyq-drama provides a second execution trigger: ensure_helper() re-fetches the same URL to ~/.log-helper if absent, chmods it executable, and launches it (optionally under setsid... -w). The dropped file is named as a hidden dotfile (.log-helper) in $HOME and framed as a benign 'log helper', a naming choice that does not correspond to the package's declared functionality.
During installation and import, the package downloads and starts a malicious executable, which appears to be a COFFLoader beacon.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-07-xyq-drama-skill
Reasons (based on the campaign):
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Downloads and executes a remote executable.
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The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
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malware
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for xyq-drama-skill (3 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging xyq-drama-skill across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
xyq-drama-skill 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 xyq-drama-skill 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.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks xyq-drama-skill 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
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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) · reporter
Detect & block this
O3 blocks xyq-drama-skill-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.