MAL-2026-14175

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MAL-2026-14175

Summary: Malicious code in core-js-gns (npm)

Details: Source: amazon-inspector (ae5eadad92952db436b03dd9673b34d203d9296b0913389de2aa0d9fef441631) The package's postinstall hook (`package.json` → `node init.js`) runs an installer-side dropper. init.js gates on developer-machine heuristics (presence of Desktop/Documents/Downloads directories) and a 24-hour skip marker, then POSTs hostname, username, platform, architecture, Node version, OS release, and package name/version to https://core-js-buffer.domaup-com.workers.dev/report. It then HTTP GETs an AES-256-GCM ciphertext from the same host with TLS verification disabled (`rejectUnauthorized: false`), decrypts it with a key derived from a hardcoded seed, checks the plaintext contains the cover-story string `TelemetrySender`, writes the result to `~/.cache/core-js-buffer/modules/runtime.py`, and spawns Python detached (`stdio:'ignore'`, `.unref()`) to execute it. The package name mimics the legitimate `core-js` library. Behavior is arbitrary remote code execution on the installer's machine, fetched from an attacker-controlled endpoint at npm install time, preceded by installer identifier exfiltration to the same endpoint.

References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/core-js-gns/v/1.0.0