GCVE-110-OSM-2026-11599

On `import telemetry_helper`, top-level code starts a daemon thread that sleeps 30 seconds and then POSTs a JSON payload containing the hostname, username, current working directory, and the entire process environment (`dict(os.environ)`) to a hardcoded webhook.site inbox at https://webhook.site/e32d3b8a-a5df-40cc-ae60-7a8343b581e4. `os.environ` on developer and CI hosts routinely contains credential-grade variables (AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID / AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN, PYPI_TOKEN / TWINE_PASSWORD, database URLs, private keys), so this is a bulk credential and host-identity harvester. The destination is an anonymous third-party webhook inbox unrelated to any declared publisher, and the 30-second delay before the POST is consistent with evasion of short-lived install/import sandboxes. The behavior fires unconditionally at import with no opt-out and no relation to any advertised functionality. In this campaign, one package contains malicious code exfiltrating environment variables during import (telemetry-helper), and another one intentionally installs it as a dependency. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-09-telemetry-helper Reasons (based on the campaign): - exfiltration-env-variables - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package Judge assessment: This is a straightforward import-time infostealer: `telemetry_helper/__init__.py` calls `send_ping()` at module import, builds a payload with `socket.gethostname()`, `os.getlogin()`/`os.environ.get('USER')`, `os.getcwd()`, and the full `dict(os.environ)`, then POSTs it to a hardcoded `webhook.site` inbox. The attacker model is credential harvesting from developer and CI hosts, since `os.environ` routinely contains secrets like cloud keys and tokens, and the code disables TLS verification with `verify=False` to ease exfiltration. The `MAL-2026-15829` advisory is corroborated by the actual source and the recovered IOC `https://webhook.site/e32d3b8a-a5df-40cc-ae60-7a8343b581e4`, so this is not a benign telemetry helper. The minimal metadata and no repository support the assessment that this is a throwaway malicious package rather than a legitimate published library. ENTRY telemetry_helper/__init__.py (module-import: 13) DESTINATION - 1 exfil (custom-c2) (values recorded in verified_iocs) EXFIL - Environment Variable Exfiltration in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "os.environ.get('USER', 'unknown'), 'cwd': os.getcwd(), 'env': dict(os.environ) }..." - OAST/Interactsh Exfiltration in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "webhook.site" - System Information Exfiltration in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "socket.gethostname(), 'user': os.getlogin() if hasattr(os, 'getlogin') else os.e..." - HTTP Data Exfiltration in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "os.getcwd(), 'env': dict(os.environ) } # Use the domain and disable SSL verifica..." - Network Request in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "requests.post(" - System Information Collection in telemetry_helper/__init__.py: "socket.gethostname()" PAYLOAD FILES telemetry_helper/__init__.py