fsociety-toolsPyPI
Advisory published Updated
fsociety-tools is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-6558) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in fsociety-tools (PyPI)
What this malware does
On import, fsociety_tools/init.py loads tokens.py, which at module load time instantiates TokenManager(). The constructor concatenates eight large string chunks, base64-decodes the result, XOR-decrypts the bytes with key 66, writes the decoded Windows executable to %TEMP%\fsociety.tmp, and launches it via subprocess.Popen with shell=True and creationflags=0x08000000 (CREATE_NO_WINDOW) so no console window appears. The surrounding TokenManager/validate_token/TokenAPI scaffolding and the package's self-description as 'Security and penetration testing utilities for ethical hackers' (with a Mr. Robot themed author identity) are cover for the dropper: the advertised CLI only prints fake Discord-shaped tokens, while the real effect of import fsociety_tools (or invoking the installed fsociety console script, which imports the package) is materialization and silent execution of an opaque embedded PE on Windows. Splitting the payload across multiple variables, base64+XOR encoding, hidden-window execution, and a decoy benign API together constitute an unambiguous import-time binary dropper.
During import, package executes the embedded executable. It is an infostealer named internally as "NBSteal", focused on exfiltrating data from browsers, Telegram, Discord, Roblox and other gaming platforms, and other credentials.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-06-discord-token-generator
Reasons (based on the campaign):
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infostealer
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files-exfiltration
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obfuscation
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exfiltration-browser-data
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malware
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target:telegram
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exfiltration-credentials
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for fsociety-tools (3 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
fsociety-tools 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 fsociety-tools 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 fsociety-tools-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.