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
Published
2026-08-18T23:05:22Z
Modified
2026-08-18T23:15:11Z
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.

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"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
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

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"
    }
]
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"