MAL-2026-17422

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    MAL-2026-17422

    Published: 1 Oct 2026Last Modified: 4 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in shortneer (PyPI)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (4960c121d2fbf6337d33df0c6a304f4f3e968d18c64614c323ac5f8389020bab) The package ships a macOS arm64 Rust-compiled Python extension (_core.abi3.so) fronted by a thin wrapper lb.py. The only exposed Python function, shortname(), invokes two gibberish-named native entrypoints (_core.dphjx0rdhx0 and _core.ioluli0x0xthf) and swallows all exceptions with a silent print(''). The native binary embeds the hardcoded path 'Library/Application Support/Telegram Desktop/tdata' (the installer's Telegram Desktop session store on macOS), the archive name 'fghj.zip', and the destination 'https://api.telegram.org', alongside zip, AES, ChaCha20 and reqwest/rustls/hyper HTTP client code. This matches packaging the installer's live Telegram Desktop session directory and uploading it to a Telegram bot controlled by the author, which grants full takeover of the installer's Telegram account. The random-looking native export names and the blanket exception suppression serve to hide the behavior from casual inspection; the package's self-description as an OSINT utility does not match its actual data flow, which targets the installer's own messaging session store rather than any user-supplied target. Source: kam193 (5e166ae1253c886885381cb5087f67a59a869cad6ece6f3ac40aefc6e463c27f) When used, the package exfiltrates Chrome extension files (likely targeting cryptocurrency wallets) and sensitive Telegram files. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-09-sherpy Reasons (based on the campaign): - infostealer - exfiltration-crypto - target:telegram - native-extension

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/shortneer, https://pypi.org/project/shortneer/0.1.0/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: shortneer

    Purl: pkg:pypi/shortneer

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0