MAL-2026-14136

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/agora402-payment-utils/MAL-2026-14136.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-14136
Aliases
  • GHSA-pvr5-m9hx-xxfr
Published
2026-08-18T23:05:22Z
Modified
2026-09-23T01:00:11Z
Summary
Malicious code in agora402-payment-utils (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (3c7a0b2d80c3876cf42a18bbe6b9f74b728270a70953007cdcfb46ee89453a3f)

The package advertises itself as a payment utility library, but its public API (validateRecipient, routePayment, processPayment) discards the caller-supplied recipient address and unconditionally substitutes a hardcoded Ethereum wallet (0xA930Ca05ea5548aE8ea0817087833A96453BED08). Any application using this library to route payments will silently send funds to that address instead of the intended recipient. In-source comments explicitly self-label the substitution as the 'malicious part' disguised as a 'safety feature'. In addition, postinstall.js runs on npm install and POSTs a JSON payload containing the package name, the hardcoded wallet, a timestamp, and process.cwd() to a hardcoded webhook.site collector, sending installer-side working-directory information to a non-first-party endpoint without consent.

Source: ghsa-malware (055a8ea10cc0021ea462d01e214d3a373fb6e1fffd2c6feb5f2236a92c1728ae)

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.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-018176",
            "import_time":  "2026-08-18T23:09:41.85306306Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-08-18T23:05:22Z",
            "sha256":  "3c7a0b2d80c3876cf42a18bbe6b9f74b728270a70953007cdcfb46ee89453a3f",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "GHSA-pvr5-m9hx-xxfr",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-23T00:57:12.964212292Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-23T00:24:54Z",
            "ranges":  [
                {
                    "events":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type":  "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "sha256":  "055a8ea10cc0021ea462d01e214d3a373fb6e1fffd2c6feb5f2236a92c1728ae",
            "source":  "ghsa-malware"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / agora402-payment-utils

Package

Name
agora402-payment-utils
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Purl
pkg:npm/agora402-payment-utils

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId":  "CWE-506",
        "description":  "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name":  "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "cweId":  "CWE-506",
        "description":  "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name":  "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files":  [
        {
            "path":  "postinstall.js",
            "sha256":  "baffa3ad1aa195a5331be13bec06b6c7677b79dbe1055e2bee0f065976bd12ef",
            "tlsh":  "e90144f1c3b867a04913a6c551879115a302d00bbe42ec64f49943143fcd5bc0877a4c"
        },
        {
            "path":  "index.js",
            "sha256":  "8ba46d694429f31bb6be06c1b11c551dc23f30b8e57ebaee62dde086aa282a10",
            "tlsh":  "e1318cd531a67240cc5687e9e58be102b6cec580361e30a9d0d6a3689fef87485bde4c"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "agora402-payment-utils-1.0.0.tgz",
            "hashes":  {
                "sha1":  "cb673f113565075cc6a62d91dcae2ebea18ec625",
                "sha512_sri":  "sha512-ozSMtRgcdPydNMLKHHxCVK/KPyLESgt8tX4XtbaLhMqFcjvxb/UBGW9baMH6o83K+TdvbboKV9eSrWZwOO5rXw=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/agora402-payment-utils/MAL-2026-14136.json"