byted-kickart-viral-replicator
Audited by Socket on Aug 10, 2026
2 alerts found:
Anomalyx2No strong evidence of intentional malware (no eval/exec, no subprocess, no hardcoded secrets or obvious backdoor logic) is present in this fragment. However, there are two significant security concerns: (1) potentially unsafe filesystem path construction using unsanitized group/media_id leading to plausible path traversal and arbitrary read/write/delete within the permissions of the running process; and (2) sys.path.append modifying import resolution, enabling import shadowing if the filesystem/runtime environment is attacker-influenced. Remote uploading occurs via delegated client/uploader calls, but domain/endpoint details and intent are not visible here; review dependent networking/auth modules for further confirmation.
This module is a functional CLI wrapper that (a) queries a backend for task data, (b) extracts a service-provided video_url and passes it to a network-capable uploader, and (c) writes the returned JSON to a user-supplied file path. No explicit malicious payload behavior is visible in the snippet, but security risks are present: potential outbound transfer via KickartUploader, possible sensitive data disclosure to stderr on error paths, runtime sys.path manipulation enabling import shadowing, and unvalidated output-path usage that can overwrite files. Final maliciousness likelihood depends on the unseen implementations of IccpService and KickartUploader.