MAL-2026-11682

npm/@or-sdk/chat is affected by the large-scale, self-propagating npm supply-chain worm of 2026-08-04 (the "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again" wave) — the same campaign that began with the compromise of the keyv and cacheable maintainer account. The listed version(s) were trojanized and republished by the worm after it reached an npm publish token belonging to a maintainer in this namespace; the payload enumerates every package a stolen token controls and republishes each with the same hook, so many packages under this scope were poisoned in the same short window. Every poisoned release adds a preinstall hook ("preinstall": "node setup.mjs") that runs on a bare npm install, before any project code. setup.mjs downloads a standalone Bun runtime and runs a byte-identical, heavily obfuscated ~728 KB second-stage credential stealer (shipped as MathSymbol.js / mathinit.js). It harvests GitHub, npm, AWS, GCP, Azure, HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes credentials plus generic secrets and private keys (TruffleHog-style sweep), reads CI/CD secrets and identifies build runners, then republishes further packages the stolen token can reach. Rather than a fixed command-and-control host, it exfiltrates stolen findings to attacker-created GitHub repositories (descriptions reading "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again") and over DNS. Treat any environment that installed an affected version (with install scripts enabled) as compromised: rotate and revoke all reachable credentials (npm and GitHub tokens, cloud keys, Vault/Kubernetes secrets, and CI org/repo secrets). Part of the August 2026 npm worm that poisoned 400+ packages across many organizations.

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Source: amazon-inspector (b20c2295b9f65010a19f912259559e8ebfc4939c409d1eea7b438a6f9e24b70e)

package.json declares "preinstall": "node setup.mjs". setup.mjs downloads the Bun runtime archive from github.com/oven-sh/bun releases, extracts it, and uses the freshly-installed Bun binary to execute the sibling file mathinit.js via execFileSync. mathinit.js is a 727KB // @bun @bun-cjs script whose contents are a rotating string-array dispatcher with an XOR-style decoder (identifiers WV8StW / n7gIxM / MmgoCP) — its behavior is not readable from static text. The advertised purpose of the package is a small browser chat-window helper (~50 lines of TypeScript in src/), which has no need for the Bun runtime or a 727KB opaque payload at install time. The preinstall alternate-runtime dropper fires automatically on npm install, running attacker-supplied code under the Bun runtime and bypassing Node-based install-time inspection. The mismatch between the tiny published SDK source and the bundled obfuscated Bun payload is consistent with a compromised release rather than a legitimate build artifact.

Source: ghsa-malware (f95162e0ee8fe3358c4c0e8e7878900d6a9b2661fc1a9ab917f5537782d0681d)

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.