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id: MAL-2026-18153
title: Malicious code in hookgantry (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in hookgantry (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: hookgantry
product: hookgantry
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - hookgantry
published: '2026-10-22'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T14:45:07.722124201Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18153'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hookgantry'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/hookgantry/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-22T11:56:43.872Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (bc8005889d1341b2a59a879ac055990fc071ea11c67093f04f88ebf15caeb90e)
The package hookgantry 0.1.0 was scanned and no indicators of installer-side harm were found. There is no evidence of install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or environment harvesting, no fetch-and-execute dropper, no silent relay of caller data, and no persistence mechanism.

## Source: kam193 (8f2adef4202c047248aedfecfea60e5c71798b9a9f15999a7f9c76e6a5471dab)
This campaign consists of similar loader packages, which provide executing code from a given URL. While they do not contain the malicious payload and the usage remains unknown, they are clearly a coordinated campaign to place multiple deceptive ways to load malicious code.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - other


## Affected packages

- `hookgantry`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.