hooktest2

GHSA-wr8c-3hxg-f4qg

Malicious code in hooktest2 (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.1`

## Source: kam193 (207bb5790445a690e4cbb75453026def57279287f88d6c54c7af956e3ba89e1c)
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

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (4f2601a65663badae35e814ced0812aa9618d4a318fb46f045721e67043d9957)
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.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hooktest2/MAL-2025-191483.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hooktest2
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hooktest2/MAL-2025-191483.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wr8c-3hxg-f4qg

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.1

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.