MAL-2026-14164

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/bqq1/MAL-2026-14164.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-14164
Published
2026-08-18T23:56:45Z
Modified
2026-08-19T00:30:11.612753267Z
Summary
Malicious code in bqq1 (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (c8709cb6f826b8ee95c1d8aef1bb12c769c165260483b6a95be782af9dbeb2ba)

The npm package bqq1 advertises itself as a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships a covert surveillance and remote-control payload. On require/start, index.js unconditionally executes startApp(), which silently installs Python 3.12 (via winget, or by downloading the python.org MSI to %TEMP% and running it with /quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1), globally pip-installs a fixed dependency list, and then spawns pointer.py without any prompt, consent, or README documentation. pointer.py installs global keyboard hooks, reads the clipboard via pyperclip, captures screen regions using mss and PIL ImageGrab, and walks the Windows UIAutomation tree to scrape text from other applications' UI. The captured data is POSTed to the hardcoded endpoint https://iq-sec.vercel.app/api. The response body from that endpoint is fed into pyautogui, which types the remote-controlled text into whatever window is focused on the host, driven by global hotkeys (triggerapi, forcepaste, retryapi). The UI runs in borderless Tk windows with blank titles, overrideredirect, and transparent overlays, plus 'stealthhide' and 'panic_exit' hotkeys — explicit stealth engineering that contradicts the package's declared purpose.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "import_time": "2026-08-19T00:21:11.557195201Z",
            "sha256": "c8709cb6f826b8ee95c1d8aef1bb12c769c165260483b6a95be782af9dbeb2ba",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-18T23:56:45Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-018234",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / bqq1

Package

Name
bqq1
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Purl
pkg:npm/bqq1

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/bqq1/MAL-2026-14164.json"
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "01ae88f6fcd21d909396e7189f67fc5f5d4accc4891de45644659dcf5b5b79e0",
            "path": "pointer.py",
            "tlsh": "cde2fa09ec0d0896c473de2e5852b857fb1e0b435a1e9e17f8bc99901f743428ae0ef9"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f9918a3925f7dfc03976523f6cd3a7f1f2e1d85846f44ef3510d0a23bfe5e978",
            "path": "index.js",
            "tlsh": "fb814f065a95a234ed7247a99b07212be517a0a3a100e69cbdbe83850f76945c073fee"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "0785220e882ed46672ac057d9bc6d666997ec3241de86efd9a9307319ba7e35a",
            "tlsh": "a3e08637c9615ca344f44aa19a764f15b1718f3f00754c4f30b7509c97f25b245aab1c",
            "path": "package.json"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "bqq1-1.0.0.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-IvyG75/o0MJzrAgNFuzJAAB8TfJgnAlea4ohXe7bEozTw3Nch4wcMk/HnS+chHEzMfKlvSmXb6FNO0JWnkltVg==",
                "sha1": "b7ab46dd49f7fe269ee69c552f44dd819e7ba8f3"
            }
        }
    ]
}
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."
    }
]