MAL-2026-11130

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/array-node-utils/MAL-2026-11130.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-11130
Published
2026-07-28T13:38:38Z
Modified
2026-07-28T14:37:23.024962549Z
Summary
Malicious code in array-node-utils (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (c0dbd4ffa55ee3a0972b3e5e3fef599244049244d9f996a9d8b809a3a3a53e1a)

The package's main file index.js is a heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io RC4+base64 string-array) module whose top-level IIFE runs on require(). It loads https, path, os, fs, childprocess, and crypto; assembles a 4-octet host string via repeated.concat calls to hide the destination; issues an https GET; pipes the response through crypto.createDecipheriv (AES) with a sha256-derived key; writes the decrypted bytes to a file under os.tmpdir(); and executes that file via childprocess with windowsHide and cwd set to the user's home directory. The package's declared purpose ('array-node-utils') has no relationship to the shipped code — the module contains no array-handling logic, only the fetch-decrypt-exec chain.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "modified_time": "2026-07-28T13:38:38Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-010934",
            "import_time": "2026-07-28T14:19:59.909107928Z",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.9"
            ],
            "sha256": "c0dbd4ffa55ee3a0972b3e5e3fef599244049244d9f996a9d8b809a3a3a53e1a"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / array-node-utils

Package

Name
array-node-utils
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Purl
pkg:npm/array-node-utils

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.9

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "tlsh": "ceb2868d3fd2f0a04237b0f76a1b6895e13aac9cb2cc9409f7a5f058fd58354d165b68",
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "3a96c07468a2adea3fab5cdfdee801fdb557382a128b0e62b34f013400e5266d"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "array-node-utils-1.0.9.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-MJ+LPfgCxLWINtm247TrBYK4OHg3rgbRgJrt1amYQsOR7CMzeGjMpLo3VhIhJtBTiK4TkJIP9XUXlGhbPoZxGg==",
                "sha1": "3cddce7b3696de276984d15af3ee4a04411beb55"
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/array-node-utils/MAL-2026-11130.json"
cwes 
[
    {
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]