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Malicious MAL-2025-192685

hooktest-fin

PyPI package · versions 0.1.1

Reported Dec 21, 2025 · Updated Dec 21, 2025

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (87e6fba5c0ac4b5359cb360a5dbf68404d0b8559bd94a9f4c33fdad09559b241)
During installation, a script to execute remote commands through a Discord bot is installed, ensuring its persistence over reboots

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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