MAL-2026-16112

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    MAL-2026-16112

    Published: 10 Sept 2026Last Modified: 11 Sept 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in etoro-analytics (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (bfe27d37497e77c8f0eca9105a6b64c646c7ef1439c05ec50edaf40215037f92) [email protected] ships a preinstall lifecycle script (preinstall.js) that automatically runs on `npm install`. The script collects installer host identifiers (hostname, username, cwd, platform) and issues an initial HTTP GET to http://209.126.81.147/etoro-nuget-verify1f8eaa57a875/v4/<host>/<user>/<platform>/<cwd>. It then invokes child_process.execSync on platform-branched reconnaissance commands (`whoami /all`, `ipconfig /all`, `tasklist` on Windows; `whoami`, `ifconfig`, `ps aux`, `env` on POSIX) plus home/root directory listings and POSTs the output back to the same hardcoded bare-IP endpoint over plain HTTP. The package name, implausibly high version number (99.0.2), and canary-token URL path are consistent with a dependency-confusion beacon targeting an internal etoro package namespace.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/etoro-analytics/v/999.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/etoro-analytics/v/99.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/etoro-analytics/v/99.0.2

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: etoro-analytics

    Purl: pkg:npm/etoro-analytics

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    999.0.0