sankislayer

GHSA-pwg5-rh4m-9xf3

Malicious code in sankislayer (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (74a2d321c0a35b52bc8ba63b8c13dd8e883d63419ed8aa304b648d3599f98ad8)
Obfuscated code provides a Telegram bot to join a spamming botnet. Centrally controlled bots can be used to spam other Telegram channels (via looped posting, changing photos, or titles).


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2026-07-sankislayer


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - obfuscation


 - abusing-3rd-api


 - target:telegram

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/sankislayer/MAL-2026-10119.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/sankislayer
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/sankislayer/MAL-2026-10119.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwg5-rh4m-9xf3

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.