kevthehermit/PasteHunter

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1137 stars · 222 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PasteHunter is a Python 3 application that queries public pastebin-style sites (pastebin.com, GitHub gists, slexy, stackexchange, etc.) and scans the raw paste contents against Yara rules. Matches can be output to Elasticsearch, email, Slack, JSON, CSV, syslog, or a URL, and decoded data can be forwarded to sandboxes like Cuckoo or Viper.

Use cases

• monitor pastebin for leaked credentials and secrets
• find exposed API keys and passwords in public pastes
• threat intelligence gathering from paste sites
• alert a Slack channel when sensitive data is pasted publicly
• index pasted data into Elasticsearch for research
• detect malware samples or phishing kits shared on pastebins

When to choose

• you need automated monitoring of public paste sites for sensitive or malicious data
• you already use Yara rules and want to apply them to pastebin content
• you want a self-hosted OSINT/threat-intel collection pipeline with flexible outputs

When to avoid

• you need real-time monitoring of private or authenticated data sources
• you want a managed SaaS threat-intel feed rather than running your own infrastructure
• you need deep content analysis beyond Yara rule matching

Facets

application · maturity active

search-engine monitoring web-scraping security security osint python self-hosted yara pastebin osint threat-intelligence threat-hunting elasticsearch data-leak-detection automation linux docker

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