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Hades / Shai-Hulud — AI-Agent Credential Harvester in Supply-Chain Package (Anthropic / Claude / MCP key theft + exfil) - ATR-2026-00576 (624cc0c4-a37a-5f83-8938-25e82635458f)

Detects the AI-agent credential-theft stage of the Shai-Hulud "Hades" / Mini-Shai-Hulud / Miasma campaign (Socket, 2026-06-08; Dark Reading / The Hacker News, 2026-06-09..11). Malicious npm/PyPI packages — many typosquatting MCP libraries (langchain-core-mcp, instructor-mcp, openai-mcp, tiktoken-mcp, ray-mcp-server) — drop a Bun/Node credential stealer that runs at install / import time and harvests AI-agent secrets: ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, the Claude desktop / Claude Code config, and .mcp.json, alongside .npmrc, .pypirc, SSH keys and cloud credentials, then exfiltrates them to an attacker endpoint. This rule fires on the agent-specific signal — code that reads an AI-agent credential or config surface and is co-located with an outbound network send, or a "harvest-everything" credential sweep that includes an AI-agent secret. It complements ATR-2026-00575 (Miasma agent-config backdoor), which covers the auto-run config injection rather than the credential exfil. It is signature detection of the known pattern, not a guarantee against re-pathed or obfuscated variants (see false_positives + evasion_tests).

Cluster A Galaxy A Cluster B Galaxy B Level
ML Supply Chain Compromise (d2cf31e0-a550-4fe0-8fdb-8941b3ac00d9) MITRE ATLAS Attack Pattern Hades / Shai-Hulud — AI-Agent Credential Harvester in Supply-Chain Package (Anthropic / Claude / MCP key theft + exfil) - ATR-2026-00576 (624cc0c4-a37a-5f83-8938-25e82635458f) Agent Threat Rules 1
Credentials In Files - T1552.001 (837f9164-50af-4ac0-8219-379d8a74cefc) Attack Pattern Hades / Shai-Hulud — AI-Agent Credential Harvester in Supply-Chain Package (Anthropic / Claude / MCP key theft + exfil) - ATR-2026-00576 (624cc0c4-a37a-5f83-8938-25e82635458f) Agent Threat Rules 1
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel - T1041 (92d7da27-2d91-488e-a00c-059dc162766d) Attack Pattern Hades / Shai-Hulud — AI-Agent Credential Harvester in Supply-Chain Package (Anthropic / Claude / MCP key theft + exfil) - ATR-2026-00576 (624cc0c4-a37a-5f83-8938-25e82635458f) Agent Threat Rules 1
Compromise Software Supply Chain - T1195.002 (bd369cd9-abb8-41ce-b5bb-fff23ee86c00) Attack Pattern Hades / Shai-Hulud — AI-Agent Credential Harvester in Supply-Chain Package (Anthropic / Claude / MCP key theft + exfil) - ATR-2026-00576 (624cc0c4-a37a-5f83-8938-25e82635458f) Agent Threat Rules 1
Unsecured Credentials - T1552 (435dfb86-2697-4867-85b5-2fef496c0517) Attack Pattern Credentials In Files - T1552.001 (837f9164-50af-4ac0-8219-379d8a74cefc) Attack Pattern 2
Supply Chain Compromise - T1195 (3f18edba-28f4-4bb9-82c3-8aa60dcac5f7) Attack Pattern Compromise Software Supply Chain - T1195.002 (bd369cd9-abb8-41ce-b5bb-fff23ee86c00) Attack Pattern 2