minecraft-ytreceiver

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## Source: amazon-inspector (ad998d7ff924f18f57116d8dd586342fd060d8fb1459d94c0a911589bc2e3686)
The 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.

## Source: kam193 (af6c2393210af3735a9353f40789859af7f87c96bcbd00178df62edb2ff7175e)
The package hides code for exfiltrating files, recordings from the webcam, screenshots, keylogging.


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


Campaign: 2026-08-minecraft-ytreceiver


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - spyware-like


 - files-exfiltration


 - uses-telegram-bot


 - keylogger

Compromised versions (5)

• 0.1.0
• 0.2.0
• 0.3.0
• 0.4.0
• 0.5.0

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