Phishtank checkURL fails

[stacsirt]

Bug

Work Environment

N/A

Question	Answer
OS version (server)	Debian
OS version (client)	OSX
Cortex Analyzer Name	PhishTank_CheckURL
Cortex Analyzer Version	2.1
Cortex Version	2.0.4
Browser type & version	Firefox 60.0.1

Description

When attempting to look up an URL in the analyser (from Cortex), I get the following error;

Invalid output
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "PhishTank/phishtank_checkurl.py", line 73, in
PhishtankAnalyzer().run()
File "PhishTank/phishtank_checkurl.py", line 44, in run
r = self.phishtank_checkurl(data)
File "PhishTank/phishtank_checkurl.py", line 19, in phishtank_checkurl
return json.loads(r.content)
File "/usr/lib/python3.5/json/init.py", line 312, in loads
s.class.name))
TypeError: the JSON object must be str, not 'bytes'

Steps to Reproduce

(keep this section only if the issue relates to a bug)

1. Start New Analysis
2. Enter URL (www.example.com)
3. Run analyser

Requirement already up-to-date: cortexutils in /usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages (1.2.4)

thanks for any help!

[jeromeleonard]

Hi,

can't reproduce the error on my side, everything works fine. Could you please confirm the error and give sample URLs please ?

Thanks.

[stacsirt]

Interesting - thank you for checking. I have done some work on the install of python and it seems to work now. Feel free to close this as user error.