MAL-2026-14158 Malicious code in deepface-weight (PyPI)

On import, deepface-weight spawns a daemon background thread that polls the installer's working directory for data/telethon_market_userbot.session for approximately 10 minutes and POSTs the file to a hardcoded webhook.site endpoint (https://webhook.site/d6ea9c5b-4a85-4e59-9397-2bb5f9407c87). Telethon session files contain live authentication material granting full access to the associated Telegram account. The exfiltration destination is bound to a variable literally named evil_server_url with a Russian-language comment identifying it as the attacker's server. The package name mimics the popular deepface ML library but ships no machine-learning code; author metadata is a placeholder (asdqwdasdqwdasd) with a disposable email at playboot.com.

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