MAL-2025-138696

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros/MAL-2025-138696.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-138696
Published
2025-11-12T03:04:12Z
Modified
2025-11-12T03:04:12Z
Summary
Malicious code in evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (3e30befce3cb5ace85b22d15ae5039ff8679def961ca8e9634b0948bd7a1bf25)

This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts (auto.js, autopublish.js, autopublish2.js, autopublish3.js) designed to automatically generate and publish derivative packages with randomized names to inflate developer reputation scores for tea protocol token rewards. The malicious payload modifies package.json to remove private flags, changes version numbers, generates random Indonesian-themed package names (some variants are also in English), and continuously republishes variants to pollute the npm registry.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "SEMVER",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-11-12T03:04:12Z",
            "sha256": "3e30befce3cb5ace85b22d15ae5039ff8679def961ca8e9634b0948bd7a1bf25",
            "import_time": "2025-11-12T03:26:39.041228267Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros

Package

Name
evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros
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Purl
pkg:npm/evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/evolutionary-amber-rhinoceros/MAL-2025-138696.json"