MAL-2025-191483

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    MAL-2025-191483

    Published: 26 Nov 2025Last Modified: 3 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in hooktest2 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (207bb5790445a690e4cbb75453026def57279287f88d6c54c7af956e3ba89e1c) During installation, the package starts a code to retrieve and execute commands from Discord Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-11-hooktest1 Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine. - rat Source: ossf-package-analysis (4f2601a65663badae35e814ced0812aa9618d4a318fb46f045721e67043d9957) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'hooktest2' @ 0.1.1 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hooktest2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: hooktest2

    Purl: pkg:pypi/hooktest2

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.1
    MAL-2025-191483 | CVE-DB