MAL-2026-11567

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MAL-2026-11567

Summary: Malicious code in @nebula.js/cli-sense (npm)

Details: npm/@nebula.js/cli-sense is affected by the large-scale, self-propagating npm supply-chain worm of 2026-08-04 (the "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again" wave) — the same campaign that began with the compromise of the keyv and cacheable maintainer account. The listed version(s) were trojanized and republished by the worm after it reached an npm publish token belonging to a maintainer in this namespace; the payload enumerates every package a stolen token controls and republishes each with the same hook, so many packages under this scope were poisoned in the same short window. Every poisoned release adds a preinstall hook (`"preinstall": "node setup.mjs"`) that runs on a bare `npm install`, before any project code. setup.mjs downloads a standalone Bun runtime and runs a byte-identical, heavily obfuscated ~728 KB second-stage credential stealer (shipped as Math_Symbol.js / math_init.js). It harvests GitHub, npm, AWS, GCP, Azure, HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes credentials plus generic secrets and private keys (TruffleHog-style sweep), reads CI/CD secrets and identifies build runners, then republishes further packages the stolen token can reach. Rather than a fixed command-and-control host, it exfiltrates stolen findings to attacker-created GitHub repositories (descriptions reading "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again") and over DNS. Treat any environment that installed an affected version (with install scripts enabled) as compromised: rotate and revoke all reachable credentials (npm and GitHub tokens, cloud keys, Vault/Kubernetes secrets, and CI org/repo secrets). Part of the August 2026 npm worm that poisoned 400+ packages across many organizations. Source: amazon-inspector (d7a2bc010a4b04ae904d6697b6d4650777e57ef771561959f0d945d478c73be6) package.json declares scripts.preinstall=`node setup.mjs`. setup.mjs is obfuscated (hex-mangled identifiers), detects platform/arch/musl, downloads a pinned Bun runtime archive from https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v1.3.13/<arch>.zip, unzips it, chmods it +x, and uses it to execute the sibling file math_init.js. math_init.js is a 727KB Bun-only obfuscated bundle (rotated string-array via WV8StW push/shift shuffle, numeric-literal table, string decoder hc1jfK9) shipped at the tarball root. The upstream Qlik `qlik-oss/nebula.js` project does not distribute setup.mjs or math_init.js; the library files (lib/api-entry.js, lib/build.js, lib/sense.js) appear genuine and serve as cover. Fetching an alternate JS runtime at install time solely to execute an obfuscated bundle unrelated to the package's advertised Qlik Sense extension builder functionality is an alternate-runtime dropper that runs attacker-controlled code on every `npm install`. Use of Bun bypasses scanners that inspect only Node-resolved code paths. Source: ghsa-malware (8e17fff4077e2b4455772fa63a281736dfb626f258e62e6ad4babd6f2ece2cf4) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

References: https://socket.dev/blog/popular-npm-packages-in-the-keyv-and-cacheable-namespaces-compromised-in-active-supply-chain, https://www.aikido.dev/blog/keyv-and-friends-compromised-in-npm-supply-chain-attack, https://safedep.io/keyv-npm-supply-chain-compromise/, https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nebula.js/cli-sense, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c79x-q2hh-wxrr, https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nebula.js/cli-sense/v/7.1.2