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id: MAL-2026-14132
title: Malicious code in deepface-weights (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in deepface-weights (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: deepface-weights
product: deepface-weights
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - deepface-weights
published: '2026-08-18'
updated: '2026-08-19'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14132'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/deepface-weights'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/deepface-weights/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-08-19T19:22:20.001Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (9c1cf8a0f273b75a4cf2b66c9b9fc351023b9f77d61e82c74d74534424ce0558)
On import, deepface_weights starts a daemon thread that polls every 10 seconds for the file `data/telethon_market_userbot.session` in the current working directory. When found, it POSTs the session file together with the local `os.getlogin()` value to the hardcoded endpoint https://webhook.site/730d2d03-5c78-4e0a-88df-9d8466b7e8aa. A Telethon `.session` file holds authenticated Telegram credentials, so exfiltration enables full takeover of the associated Telegram account. Package metadata is placeholder (author email `rozuvu@example.com`, description `Minimal example Python package`) and the name resembles the unrelated `deepface` face-recognition library, but the package ships none of that functionality — the stealer is its only behavior. Source comments in Russian label the destination as the attacker's server.

## Source: kam193 (a9b6a1255b998e6497198b80ffff88e0612a2d839c6f1b9859664436f96e5fce)
During import, package exfiltrates the sensitive file with the Telegram session token.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2026-08-deepface-weights


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - files-exfiltration


 - target:telegram


## Affected packages

- `deepface-weights`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.