mal-2026-3158
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2026-04-29 08:00
Modified
2026-04-30 22:25
Summary
Malicious code in apple-internal-pki-trust (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: preinstall. Exfiltrates Azure access tokens (~/.azure/accessTokens.json), git credentials (~/.git-credentials), and .env files from the home directory, base64-encoded, to https://franki.requestcatcher.com/apple_pre via curl.
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Source: amazon-inspector (50fe6a637643643b8f442834e218443bbcaf18dcaefe0f0b5ae8d66cbe7a6e84)
The package apple-internal-pki-trust was found to contain malicious code.
CWE
- CWE-506 - The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.
Credits
{
"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-pki-trust"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "SEMVER"
}
],
"versions": [
"2.5.0"
]
}
],
"credits": [
{
"contact": [
"actran@amazon.com"
],
"name": "Amazon Inspector",
"type": "FINDER"
},
{
"contact": [
"https://safedep.io"
],
"name": "SafeDep",
"type": "FINDER"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"malicious-packages-origins": [
{
"import_time": "2026-04-30T22:23:14.201405791Z",
"modified_time": "2026-04-30T21:59:18Z",
"sha256": "50fe6a637643643b8f442834e218443bbcaf18dcaefe0f0b5ae8d66cbe7a6e84",
"source": "amazon-inspector",
"versions": [
"2.5.0"
]
}
]
},
"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: preinstall. Exfiltrates Azure access tokens (~/.azure/accessTokens.json), git credentials (~/.git-credentials), and .env files from the home directory, base64-encoded, to https://franki.requestcatcher.com/apple_pre via curl.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (50fe6a637643643b8f442834e218443bbcaf18dcaefe0f0b5ae8d66cbe7a6e84)\nThe package apple-internal-pki-trust was found to contain malicious code.\n",
"id": "MAL-2026-3158",
"modified": "2026-04-30T22:25:08Z",
"published": "2026-04-29T08:00:00Z",
"schema_version": "1.7.4",
"summary": "Malicious code in apple-internal-pki-trust (npm)"
}
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