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


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `hooktest2` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 26 Nov 2025

## What is MAL-2025-191483?

MAL-2025-191483 is a malicious package in hooktest2, published on 26 Nov 2025. 

### Official description

During installation, the package starts a code to retrieve and execute commands from Discord

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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

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.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-191483?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2025-191483 is a malicious package: hooktest2 (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191483/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191483/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-191483

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191483/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.