mal-2026-3124
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2026-04-27 06:58
Modified
2026-04-30 22:25
Summary
Malicious code in apple-internal-dev-check (npm)
Details

Malicious npm package published by threat actor "raya4321" as part of a coordinated typosquatting campaign impersonating Apple internal infrastructure services (authentication, PKI, telemetry, CloudKit, and cloud infrastructure). All packages in this campaign execute credential-theft payloads during npm installation via preinstall or postinstall lifecycle hooks.

Trigger: postinstall. Exfiltrates full system fingerprint including hostname, username, home directory file listing, AWS credentials, GCP active config, and all environment variables, base64-encoded, to https://franki.requestcatcher.com/apple_full_leak via curl.


-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-

Source: amazon-inspector (95aeeda1c4b09aef606511b9d3f46c776a597189420959935831310789d5fcb5)

The package apple-internal-dev-check was found to contain malicious code.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (b9be007ef6ea0b1d3d9ba50b8958b00bc0089155dfc001fdf4988da85469dcd5)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'apple-internal-dev-check' @ 2.0.0 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.
CWE
  • CWE-506 - The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
        "cwes": [
          {
            "cweId": "CWE-506",
            "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
            "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "apple-internal-dev-check"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "2.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "actran@amazon.com"
      ],
      "name": "Amazon Inspector",
      "type": "FINDER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis",
        "https://openssf.slack.com/channels/package_analysis"
      ],
      "name": "OpenSSF: Package Analysis",
      "type": "FINDER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://safedep.io"
      ],
      "name": "SafeDep",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "import_time": "2026-04-28T00:48:37.071975431Z",
        "modified_time": "2026-04-27T06:58:17Z",
        "sha256": "b9be007ef6ea0b1d3d9ba50b8958b00bc0089155dfc001fdf4988da85469dcd5",
        "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
        "versions": [
          "2.0.0"
        ]
      },
      {
        "import_time": "2026-04-30T22:23:09.772901354Z",
        "modified_time": "2026-04-30T21:59:18Z",
        "sha256": "95aeeda1c4b09aef606511b9d3f46c776a597189420959935831310789d5fcb5",
        "source": "amazon-inspector",
        "versions": [
          "2.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "Malicious npm package published by threat actor \"raya4321\" as part of a coordinated typosquatting campaign impersonating Apple internal infrastructure services (authentication, PKI, telemetry, CloudKit, and cloud infrastructure). All packages in this campaign execute credential-theft payloads during npm installation via preinstall or postinstall lifecycle hooks.\n\nTrigger: postinstall. Exfiltrates full system fingerprint including hostname, username, home directory file listing, AWS credentials, GCP active config, and all environment variables, base64-encoded, to https://franki.requestcatcher.com/apple_full_leak via curl.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (95aeeda1c4b09aef606511b9d3f46c776a597189420959935831310789d5fcb5)\nThe package apple-internal-dev-check was found to contain malicious code.\n\n## Source: ossf-package-analysis (b9be007ef6ea0b1d3d9ba50b8958b00bc0089155dfc001fdf4988da85469dcd5)\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified \u0027apple-internal-dev-check\u0027 @ 2.0.0 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2026-3124",
  "modified": "2026-04-30T22:25:08Z",
  "published": "2026-04-27T06:58:17Z",
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in apple-internal-dev-check (npm)"
}


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