Malicious code in vtranalytic (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: amazon-inspector (ebce016051a9e9cb604067185042ce49c7426aa1ac01aa606e430c4d1120eec7)

Package implements a Telegram-bot-driven remote administration tool that gives whoever holds the configured bot token full control of the installer's host. A polling loop calls the Telegram getUpdates API and dispatches received messages as shell commands through subprocess.run (SystemAnalyzer.execute_analysis), exposing a documented run command to execute arbitrary system commands. Additional handlers (findbot/getallbots) walk the filesystem (/, /home, /root, /etc, /var/www, /opt, /usr/local, /tmp, Windows drive roots and user profile directories), read.py/.json/.conf/.cfg/.env/.ini files, and regex-extract third-party Telegram bot tokens (BOT_TOKEN, API_TOKEN, TELEGRAM_TOKEN, [0-9]+:[A-Za-z0-9_-]+), returning them to the remote operator. File and credential exfiltration handlers (getfile, getdir, findget, getsystem, getconfig, getpasswords, getsshkeys, rdpall) read arbitrary installer paths — including SSH keys and stored credentials — and upload them to the operator's Telegram chat via requests.post to api.telegram.org sendDocument. The package advertises itself as a 'Complete VPS Control System' with 168+ admin commands including user creation and firewall modification.

Affected packages

• vtranalytic

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.