mal-2026-3163
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
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. Executes ms_audit.sh on install: reads the full process environment from /proc/1/environ (including PID 1 / container init secrets), searches filesystem for entrypoint/startup scripts, and queries the GCP instance metadata API for all instance attributes; exfiltrates all data to https://webhook.site/e44df9ae-8bff-478a-b1f2-514c1fcbf303.
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Source: amazon-inspector (48ee2fe96a946076abe1db7acffc5f90477a30fe288e50bf2dae0a53a80fc3d7)
The package npm-global-util was found to contain malicious code.
- CWE-506 - The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.
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"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": "npm-global-util"
},
"ranges": [
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
}
],
"type": "SEMVER"
}
],
"versions": [
"1.3.2",
"1.3.4"
]
}
],
"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": "2026-04-30T22:23:12.052051371Z",
"modified_time": "2026-04-30T21:59:18Z",
"sha256": "48ee2fe96a946076abe1db7acffc5f90477a30fe288e50bf2dae0a53a80fc3d7",
"source": "amazon-inspector",
"versions": [
"1.3.2",
"1.3.4"
]
}
]
},
"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. Executes ms_audit.sh on install: reads the full process environment from /proc/1/environ (including PID 1 / container init secrets), searches filesystem for entrypoint/startup scripts, and queries the GCP instance metadata API for all instance attributes; exfiltrates all data to https://webhook.site/e44df9ae-8bff-478a-b1f2-514c1fcbf303.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (48ee2fe96a946076abe1db7acffc5f90477a30fe288e50bf2dae0a53a80fc3d7)\nThe package npm-global-util was found to contain malicious code.\n",
"id": "MAL-2026-3163",
"modified": "2026-04-30T22:25:11Z",
"published": "2026-04-29T08:00:00Z",
"schema_version": "1.7.4",
"summary": "Malicious code in npm-global-util (npm)"
}
Sightings
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