MAL-2026-16118

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    MAL-2026-16118

    Published: 10 Sept 2026Last Modified: 11 Sept 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in etoro-charts (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (e44aff5a1a0b68ff9c9b3456693ef1b8266dce7001dd8b6ff56bed428bbc7c5a) On npm install, preinstall.js runs automatically and sends the installer's hostname, username, platform, and current working directory via HTTP GET to http://209.126.81.147/etoro-nuget-verify1f8eaa57a875/npm/v2/<host>/<user>/<platform>/<cwd>, then executes `whoami; id; hostname -f` (or `whoami /all` on Windows) via child_process and POSTs the command output to the same hardcoded bare-IP endpoint over plain HTTP. The package.json advertises the package as an `Internal service client library` at version 99.0.0 with no real functional code beyond the preinstall hook, and the beacon path segment `etoro-nuget-verify...` targets an internal eToro namespace, matching the dependency-confusion recon pattern.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: etoro-charts

    Purl: pkg:npm/etoro-charts

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    999.0.0