minecraft-ytreceiver

{"schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2026-14516","published":"2026-08-25T19:28:57Z","modified":"2026-08-25T22:11:57.018508970Z","summary":"Malicious code in minecraft-ytreceiver (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (ad998d7ff924f18f57116d8dd586342fd060d8fb1459d94c0a911589bc2e3686)\nThe package's module polls a hardcoded Telegram bot (api.telegram.org, bot id 8871201315) for commands scoped to a specific chat and topic. On matching messages it downloads a video and forces fullscreen playback while blocking keyboard and mouse input (via keyboard and pynput hooks), kills explorer.exe, and for the /YoutubeCD variant executes `shutdown /s /t 0 /f` to unconditionally power off the host. The bot token, chat id, topic id, and staging directory components are stored as base64 literals decoded at runtime by a helper function; the staging directory is placed at %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Crypto\\RSA\\tools to mimic the legitimate Windows RSA key-storage path. At import time the module silently pip-installs undeclared runtime dependencies (requests, keyboard, pynput, psutil) using CREATE_NO_WINDOW to hide the console, then downloads yt-dlp.exe and deno.exe from the mutable `releases/latest` GitHub URLs with no hash verification into the disguised staging path and executes them as part of the remotely driven command chain. pyproject metadata is a placeholder (`Your Name`, no email, homepage, or repository), consistent with a throwaway anonymously published package.\n\n## Source: kam193 (af6c2393210af3735a9353f40789859af7f87c96bcbd00178df62edb2ff7175e)\nThe package hides code for exfiltrating files, recordings from the webcam, screenshots, keylogging.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-08-minecraft-ytreceiver\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - spyware-like\n\n\n - files-exfiltration\n\n\n - uses-telegram-bot\n\n\n - keylogger\n","affected":[{"package":{"name":"minecraft-ytreceiver","ecosystem":"PyPI"},"versions":["0.1.0","0.2.0","0.3.0","0.4.0","0.5.0"],"database_specific":{"cwes":[{"cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.","name":"Embedded Malicious Code"},{"cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.","name":"Embedded Malicious Code"}],"indicators":{"evidence_files":[{"path":"src/youtube3_1/ytreciever.py","sha256":"2acad302d38f0cc33e3c72f67580a6c3731cea92d42ad6f72b8ce51a1433f242","tlsh":"b062b556fe2e5010c3f2199ef982d251e78b91070a766a93f93cc8a07f3d871917869e"}],"package_integrity":[{"filename":"minecraft_ytreceiver-0.3.0-py3-none-any.whl","hashes":{"blake2b_256":"edd84b9081c45a5a69258f80afd2876c0bd80f9c048f998b56db89e6acfd2d2a","md5":"51f054bffbd0d8129c2f50aee8412962","sha256":"c30f7d61e9ef78c47320a7c8509582059d4d6ee2e6299f55fd4f3bf8e0d8a9bf"}},{"filename":"minecraft_ytreceiver-0.3.0.tar.gz","hashes":{"blake2b_256":"d33518397b01c5776be2e749d5ff19e761fd74441fa1c0f6aa9a82fb7d179c34","md5":"1992fbe0011acd9fe4bab0e5211a05b7","sha256":"cce40039996b877fe587ec69ed408f9a821b18334684b3f8191a5c7986a60149"}}]}}}],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/minecraft-ytreceiver"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.3.0/"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/minecraft-ytreceiver/0.1.0/"}],"database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/2026-08-minecraft-ytreceiver/minecraft-ytreceiver","import_time":"2026-08-25T19:45:31.991140004Z","modified_time":"2026-08-25T19:28:57.236512Z","sha256":"af6c2393210af3735a9353f40789859af7f87c96bcbd00178df62edb2ff7175e","source":"kam193","versions":["0.1.0","0.2.0","0.3.0","0.4.0","0.5.0"]},{"id":"IN-MAL-2026-018741","import_time":"2026-08-25T22:10:01.552916004Z","modified_time":"2026-08-25T21:44:23Z","sha256":"453ea5bf0f0310ae9355caa76fcbb82a34278fefef3ca64bcc60d1c4cfe6734f","source":"amazon-inspector","versions":["0.3.0"]},{"id":"IN-MAL-2026-018740","import_time":"2026-08-25T22:10:01.474388482Z","modified_time":"2026-08-25T21:44:15Z","sha256":"ad998d7ff924f18f57116d8dd586342fd060d8fb1459d94c0a911589bc2e3686","source":"amazon-inspector","versions":["0.1.0"]}]},"credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["inspector-research@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}