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Malicious code in vtranalytic (PyPI)

Malware Published Jul 28, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 28, 2026

Package

pip vtranalytic (pip)

Affected versions

= 9.0.1

Patched versions

None

Description

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.


Credit: OpenSSF (source)

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 28, 2026
Reviewed Jul 28, 2026
Last updated Jul 28, 2026

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Embedded Malicious Code

The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature. Learn more on MITRE.

GHSA ID

GHSA-29jr-g2qh-hj97

Source code

No known source code
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