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Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in telethon-pro-safe (PyPI)

telethon-pro-safe

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for telethon-pro-safe (pypi).

Description


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Source: kam193 (8bc2e515c2eb7bf73ea5d532cfb6701dcaf3dd95e9d8248ee3d426b1d0c1ed8c)

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

Technical details

Affected versions

<function fixed() { [native code] }

Indicators

  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%
  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%
  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%
  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%
  • affected_version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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