MAL-2026-14132

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    MAL-2026-14132

    Published: 18 Aug 2026Last Modified: 19 Aug 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in deepface-weights (PyPI)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (9c1cf8a0f273b75a4cf2b66c9b9fc351023b9f77d61e82c74d74534424ce0558) On import, deepface_weights starts a daemon thread that polls every 10 seconds for the file `data/telethon_market_userbot.session` in the current working directory. When found, it POSTs the session file together with the local `os.getlogin()` value to the hardcoded endpoint https://webhook.site/730d2d03-5c78-4e0a-88df-9d8466b7e8aa. A Telethon `.session` file holds authenticated Telegram credentials, so exfiltration enables full takeover of the associated Telegram account. Package metadata is placeholder (author email `[email protected]`, description `Minimal example Python package`) and the name resembles the unrelated `deepface` face-recognition library, but the package ships none of that functionality — the stealer is its only behavior. Source comments in Russian label the destination as the attacker's server. Source: kam193 (a9b6a1255b998e6497198b80ffff88e0612a2d839c6f1b9859664436f96e5fce) During import, package exfiltrates the sensitive file with the Telegram session token. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-08-deepface-weights Reasons (based on the campaign): - files-exfiltration - target:telegram

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/deepface-weights, https://pypi.org/project/deepface-weights/0.1.0/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: deepface-weights

    Purl: pkg:pypi/deepface-weights

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1
    0.1.2