atlas-internalPyPI
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atlas-internal is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-13619) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.8.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in atlas-internal (PyPI)
What this malware does
setup.py overrides the egg_info command to execute automatically during pip install. The overridden command collects the installer's hostname, current working directory, and OS username, URL-encodes them, and sends them via an HTTP GET request to a hardcoded Interactsh out-of-band callback subdomain at fpvbsifkklbmklusmxby2405wa7x7x5bf.oast.fun. This fires on default install without user interaction and leaks installer host identifiers to an attacker-controlled OOB server, consistent with a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon.
Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.
Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.
Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest
Reasons (based on the campaign):
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The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
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The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for atlas-internal (version 1.8.1).
If you installed it — respond
atlas-internal is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If atlas-internal was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.
Frequently asked questions
Campaign
References
Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) · reporter
Detect & block this
O3 blocks atlas-internal-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.