MAL-2026-2897

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    MAL-2026-2897

    Published: 15 Apr 2026Last Modified: 1 Sept 2026Aliases: 
    GHSA-c6w2-3qw2-g5fm

    Summary: Malicious code in chai-beta (npm)

    Details: chai-beta is a malicious npm package that when imported downloads a C2 dropper from https://jsonkeeper[.]com/b/XRGF3 and executes it (similar to malware in to chai-await-test). Source: amazon-inspector (b57727c6a080ac8eccf4106639fc8fceab20fd4fb96142c8a8cb9b68422d4867) The package chai-beta was found to contain malicious code.

    References: https://www.indece.com/en-US/blog/7df041ba-feb1-4d87-918b-7fc2c709d805, https://www.sonatype.com/blog/lazarus-groups-latest-brandjacking-campaign-on-npm, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6w2-3qw2-g5fm

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: chai-beta

    Purl: pkg:npm/chai-beta

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.1.9
    MAL-2026-2897 | CVE-DB