PasteHunter is a python3 application that is designed to query a collection of sites that host publicly pasted data. For all the pastes it finds it scans the raw contents against a series of Yara rules looking for information that can be used by an organisation or a researcher.

We are aware that the pastebin scraping API has been deprectated and are reviewing.

For setup instructions please see the official documentation https://pastehunter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html

Pastehunter currently has support for the following sites:

• pastebin.com
• gist.github.com # Gists
• github.com # Public commit activity feed
• slexy.org
• stackexchange # There are about 176!

Pastehunter supports several output modules:

• dump to ElasticSearch DB (default).
• Email alerts (SMTP).
• Slack Channel notifications.
• Dump to JSON file.
• Dump to CSV file.
• Send to syslog.
• POST to URL

Pastehunter supports several sandboxes that decoded data can be sent to:

• Cuckoo
• Viper

For examples of data discovered using pastehunter check out my posts https://techanarchy.net/blog/hunting-pastebin-with-pastehunter and https://techanarchy.net/blog/pastehunter-the-results