Yeah, it would appear, by taking a quick look at wp-login.php that it indeed does not tie to the actual form, but is run separately outside of the wp_login_form() function.
Lines 914-919 of wp-login.php
/**
* Fires following the 'Password' field in the login form.
*
* @since 2.1.0
*/
do_action( 'login_form' )
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