MAL-2025-191483 Malicious code in hooktest2 (PyPI)

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

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.