If this package is installed
Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.
Details
Source: kam193 (8bc2e515c2eb7bf73ea5d532cfb6701dcaf3dd95e9d8248ee3d426b1d0c1ed8c)
During installation, package executes obfuscated code that starts a RAT-like software allowing remote control and exfiltrating sensitive data.
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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