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id: "MAL-2026-17753"
kind: "package"
aliases: ["MAL-2026-17753"]
title: "Malicious code in media-manager5 (PyPI)"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "media-manager5", "fixed": [], "affected": "= 0.1.0", "ecosystem": "pypi"}]
ecosystems: ["pypi"]
tags: ["malicious", "package"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-10-10T08:02:44+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-26T20:51:59+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-26T21:06:18+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "osv-malicious", "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17753", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-26T20:51:59+00:00"}]
---

# Malicious code in media-manager5 (PyPI)

## Affected

- pypi:media-manager5 affected = 0.1.0 fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-26T20:51:59+00:00 osv-malicious https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17753

## From the sources

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## Source: amazon-inspector (b2598535fc7c58644f4dacb6b83f87a90823b8d1b84bc3357a6b2ae500342ba9)
The package advertises itself as a 'silent per-user wallpaper rotator for Windows' but ships wallpaper.py, a command-and-control client that connects to the hardcoded endpoint https://googleforum.pythonanywhere.com. On construction of MediaManager5(), the package writes a runner script to %LOCALAPPDATA%\MediaManager5\runner.py and registers a Windows Scheduled Task named 'MediaManager5' with /SC ONLOGON, so the agent is executed via pythonw at every user logon and re-invokes wallpaper.py on a 10-minute loop. The agent registers the host as username@hostname against /api/register and polls /api/client/<id>/poll for commands dispatched through a COMMAND_HANDLERS table that includes an 'exec' handler running arbitrary shell commands via subprocess.run(command, shell=True), plus list/upload/download/delete/rename handlers over arbitrary filesystem paths; handle_download base64-encodes file contents and returns them to the server via /api/client/<id>/result. The wallpaper framing in the package name, README, and docstrings does not match the shipped payload.

## Source: kam193 (cb983aa5b7a424ffd813440bb47cefb9d43ed193c38456dd8acb299aafa3cd56)
The package installs a persistent job that allows the attacker for exfiltrating files and executing remote code on the victim's machine.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-agentaix


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - files-exfiltration


 - peristence-autorun


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.


 - rat


 - persistence


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

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