MAL-2026-12338

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/alpha-helper/MAL-2026-12338.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-12338
Published
2026-08-05T13:07:54Z
Modified
2026-08-05T13:34:57.166575623Z
Summary
Malicious code in alpha-helper (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (9758eecca0cf755a3c7cc43115b413dfda31f149bbeed40cdfaeb5e46d739efb)

The exported getPlugin in index.js issues an HTTPS request to a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint at 46.183.25.232:45000/icons/116 and passes the response field data.credits into a new Function(...) constructor with require, module, process, Buffer, and Promise bound into scope. Any consumer calling the exported function runs attacker-controlled JavaScript with full Node privileges. index.js also contains a decoy setDefaultModule that builds cdnjs-style font-awesome URLs across cloudflare/fastly/jsdelivr hostnames, which is not on the reachable code path. The package.json describes the module as a lightweight utility toolkit while the README describes an unrelated gamified trading system, and declared runtime dependencies include @primno/dpapi (Windows DPAPI unwrap), better-sqlite3, and node-machine-id, consistent with staging for browser-credential extraction.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.3.4"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T13:07:54Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-014894",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T13:08:53.482843899Z",
            "sha256": "9758eecca0cf755a3c7cc43115b413dfda31f149bbeed40cdfaeb5e46d739efb",
            "source": "amazon-inspector"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / alpha-helper

Package

Name
alpha-helper
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Purl
pkg:npm/alpha-helper

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.3.4

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "alpha-helper-1.3.4.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "14ef0e89161df4ea236293e883e7e0f5abcfeb3d",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-J8HplQ3c4hYcrL1unaU0mJia8W4zDZ48xmCFuwfnV2oLElfveuf5xtWrm6YXvTg15epafrM6in9LW76OF/HZnQ=="
            }
        }
    ],
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "771076c5104a94f76808da0fa6c00da8210c0194c10a6e3397a1e24b8ff54c7f",
            "tlsh": "98c16f6546fa21a36a67e4eef30f100271a5e313365de971f48e42902fca568e5f24e8"
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/alpha-helper/MAL-2026-12338.json"