discord-telemetry

GHSA-2w4f-9px4-2qwq

Malicious code in discord-telemetry (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (b8a926675ed9f43b0067def4bd625208d08a08c8750fd3c2f9f7bfd6138e3d4d)
During installation, the package downloads and executes a remote executable. Before 0.1.5, the code contained local-only tests of malicious behaviour.


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


Campaign: 2026-07-discord-telemetry


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/discord-telemetry/MAL-2026-10701.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/discord-telemetry
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/discord-telemetry/MAL-2026-10701.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/ZWM2MzcwMWE4NzM5ZjY2MGYzZjBiYTY4NjA0Y2E4YmE6MTc4NDIxMDQzMA==
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2w4f-9px4-2qwq

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.