{
  "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-pki-cert-validator"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": "2026-04-30T22:23:10.272434741Z",
        "modified_time": "2026-04-30T21:59:18Z",
        "sha256": "bd5051ccd5f3320b046d595f846390a4f697f2ba1c11cbba710d5fd85e001659",
        "source": "amazon-inspector",
        "versions": [
          "1.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "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. Checks for ~/.ssh/id_rsa; if present, exfiltrates the SSH private key and last 50 lines of bash history, base64-encoded, to https://franki.requestcatcher.com/apple_whale via curl.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (bd5051ccd5f3320b046d595f846390a4f697f2ba1c11cbba710d5fd85e001659)\nThe package apple-pki-cert-validator was found to contain malicious code.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2026-3162",
  "modified": "2026-04-30T22:25:08Z",
  "published": "2026-04-29T08:00:00Z",
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in apple-pki-cert-validator (npm)"
}