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id: "MAL-2026-17422"
kind: "package"
aliases: ["MAL-2026-17422"]
title: "Malicious code in shortneer (PyPI)"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "shortneer", "fixed": [], "affected": "= 0.1.0", "ecosystem": "pypi"}]
ecosystems: ["pypi"]
tags: ["malicious", "package"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2026-10-01T21:00:49+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-26T20:51:58+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-26T21:08:21+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "osv-malicious", "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17422", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-26T20:51:58+00:00"}]
---

# Malicious code in shortneer (PyPI)

## Affected

- pypi:shortneer affected = 0.1.0 fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-26T20:51:58+00:00 osv-malicious https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17422

## From the sources

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## 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.


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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

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