MAL-2026-10158

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MAL-2026-10158

Summary: Malicious code in notify-utilities (npm)

Details: Source: amazon-inspector (25536516e16cffdc7ad2891886d7dcf32ad325b9ba79c2359026809bcfbf417f) Package published as notify-utilities masquerades as the pino logger (package.json description, keywords, and index.d.ts are copied from pino; the exported factory is named `pino`). When a consumer requires the package and invokes the exported factory, index.js spawns lib/vcall.js as a detached, unref'd Node child process. That child performs `axios.get('https://api.jsonsilo.com/public/df71fd55-4f0c-4326-9b5b-a285e38023a5')`, extracts `response.data.model` as a JavaScript source string, constructs a function from it via `new Function.constructor('require', src)`, and invokes the resulting handler with the live `require`, giving the fetched code full module-loading access inside the installer's Node process. The remote source is a third-party JSON storage service under attacker control; the fetched content is mutable and not tied to any publisher signature or version pin. The detached+unref child pattern is used to keep the fetch-and-eval alive after the factory's synchronous return, hiding the ongoing remote execution from the calling process.

References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/notify-utilities/v/1.3.5