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id: MAL-2026-14158
title: Malicious code in deepface-weight (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in deepface-weight (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: deepface-weight
product: deepface-weight
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - deepface-weight
published: '2026-08-18'
updated: '2026-08-19'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14158'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/deepface-weight'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/deepface-weight/0.1.4/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-08-19T19:22:20.075Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (6808b9ae619e6cf9fdb59b52305e25b8e2fdb87167fbd78fae0ca6c1c07a5f1a)
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.

## Source: kam193 (92f87cc2da145e4ab765c912a3a9cfb36ed6e8d21231fd511aa032edcd4b3e2b)
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-weight`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.