Supply-chain threat intelligence
Risk score
92
Indexed incident for telethon-pro-safe (pypi).
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During installation, package executes obfuscated code that starts a RAT-like software allowing remote control and exfiltrating sensitive data.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-05-telethon-pro-safe
Reasons (based on the campaign):
rat
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
exfiltration-credentials
exfiltration-browser-data
The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.
The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.
The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
infostealer
obfuscation
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