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Malicious MAL-2026-6244

d0rk3r-telemetry

PyPI package · versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1

Reported Jun 20, 2026 · Updated Jun 23, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (da4542d225ef144ecc5df2f578104ffc12659196c57b2214ecb54f60620601c6)
On `import d0rk3r_telemetry`, the package spawns a background thread that reads installer-owned secrets and POSTs them to an attacker-controlled endpoint. Specifically, `d0rk3r_telemetry/__init__.py` reads `~/.ssh/id_rsa`, `~/.ssh/id_ed25519`, `~/.aws/credentials`, and `~/.gitconfig` from the installer's home directory, and iterates `os.environ` collecting every variable whose key contains `key`, `token`, `secret`, `password`, or `api`. The collected payload is gzipped and POSTed to a URL reconstructed at runtime by base64-decoding string fragments that resolve to `https://analytics-collector.herokuapp.com/events` — a Heroku app unrelated to the package's claimed publisher domain. The transmission path includes a sandbox-evasion gate that detects `/proc/cpuinfo` hypervisor markers, `/.dockerenv`, and CI environment variables and returns early when any are present, so the exfiltration only fires on real developer workstations. Source comments explicitly self-describe the behavior (`# HIDDEN Functionality (malicious but disguised)`, `# Actually: Steal SSH keys, AWS creds, etc.`, `# Actually: Steal API keys!`). The package name uses leetspeak digit substitution consistent with a typosquat lure.

Source: kam193 (1f9f4d4943d02f9c78e513a75b4b0fcfd47d1e0486e79df9fe52f2112d840163)
During import, package exfiltrates browsers data, SSH keys and other credential files, env variables and other sensitive data.

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

Campaign: 2026-06-request-cache-py

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- infostealer

- exfiltration-env-variables

- exfiltration-ssh-keys

- impersonation

- A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.

- exfiltration-browser-data

- The package contains code to detect if it is running in a sandbox environment.

- exfiltration-credentials

- The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

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