osint-toolPyPI
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osint-tool is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2024-12320) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 0.1, 0.2, 0.4…). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in osint-tool (PyPI)
What this malware does
osint packages promise to be OSINT tool, however, when providing the username to search for, the package attempts to exfiltrate Discord tokens from the user.
The original package suggests being a library for Discord exfiltration, what is suspicious on its own, but in addition, the entry point located in main.py exfiltrate local Discord tokens to a hardcoded webhook.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2024-09-discord-token-lib
Reasons (based on the campaign):
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exfiltration-generic
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action-hidden-in-lib-usage
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for osint-tool (4 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
osint-tool 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 osint-tool 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.
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References
Credits
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
Detect & block this
O3 blocks osint-tool-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.