MAL-2026-17708

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    MAL-2026-17708

    Published: 8 Oct 2026Last Modified: 8 Oct 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in xblaxw (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (2d2e0b35582727d314517ea66b234f665258076783678cdf645075a7294a0aed) [email protected] is a stub package whose only behavior is a beacon. The package.json postinstall script runs `node beacon.cjs`, which collects host identifiers (hostname, install path, process.cwd(), process.version) and POSTs them as JSON to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint http://185.158.107.175:8787/_ah/dc over plaintext HTTP. The same beacon is re-fired on require(): index.js exports a Proxy that returns a no-op function for any property access and calls require('./beacon.cjs').fire() on load, so the exfiltration also triggers whenever a consumer imports the package. The package description is 'Compatibility shim.' with no real functionality — the Proxy-of-noops export is consistent with a dependency-confusion / name-squat beacon designed to confirm which internal names resolve to this public package and report back installer host metadata to the operator at 185.158.107.175:8787.

    References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/2.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/1.0.1, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/99.0.1, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/1.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/2.0.1, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/3.0.0, https://www.npmjs.com/package/xblaxw/v/1.1.0

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xblaxw

    Purl: pkg:npm/xblaxw

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.0.0
    2.0.1