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id: MAL-2026-18166
title: Malicious code in speakbench (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in speakbench (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: speakbench
product: speakbench
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - speakbench
published: '2026-10-22'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T14:45:10.263155043Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18166'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/speakbench'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/speakbench/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-22T11:56:43.877Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (6be2f131c6ccc3795c4cee48c62afe35c2b1290d788d2f59a83abc887ebde897)
Analysis of speakbench 0.1.0 across 10 files produced no indicators of installer-side harm. No install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or filesystem secret reads, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, no lifecycle-script shell execution, and no obfuscated or hardcoded exfiltration destinations were observed.

## Source: kam193 (5261cd9950cdef43aa82af72e1a479d8668a37b06d1fce0a6b8ff869e0620ed2)
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):


 - other


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


## Affected packages

- `speakbench`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.