MAL-2026-16178

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/process-lhpm/MAL-2026-16178.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16178
Published
2026-09-15T15:55:06Z
Modified
2026-09-15T16:31:19Z
Summary
Malicious code in process-lhpm (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (a663308c4051eb4b31faf7fb984989f3e1b3498e505dc05052e2beb5fbf7e6d2)

On require/import, index.js auto-invokes initialize(), which spawns a detached, stdio-suppressed node loader.js background process. loader.js performs an HTTPS GET to https://api.npoint.io/33e8d008c334b060adad, base64-decodes the code field of the JSON response, and executes it via new Function('require','__dirname','__filename','module','exports', decodedCode)(...) with full Node privileges and require access. The remote payload URL is stored in a variable named API_KEY to obscure its role. api.npoint.io is a mutable third-party JSON hosting service, so the executed code can be swapped by the operator at any time without republishing the package. The detached child process outlives the importing application, establishing a persistent remote-code-loading channel on any host that imports this package.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-020062",
            "import_time": "2026-09-15T16:19:15.588929907Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-09-15T15:55:06Z",
            "sha256": "a663308c4051eb4b31faf7fb984989f3e1b3498e505dc05052e2beb5fbf7e6d2",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.1.79"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / process-lhpm

Package

Name
process-lhpm
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Purl
pkg:npm/process-lhpm

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.1.79

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": "loader.js",
            "sha256": "7e6fb265ff2dc482d050c347751d71b672b187d95ee2d6d567e73ca78d4fedac",
            "tlsh": "265130e609fb2212027770e6bb0b596a96bba113314ec994ba9cc3d45fc2421d2d32dc"
        },
        {
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "11e427eb46163ba1735199f2294e57259403a0a784bc3ba11f410c38ae48d303",
            "tlsh": "a6f0ac4b10832723855bf3969652d0c00a7a8a1c3a44ba02481f52bd0f840958356f53"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "process-lhpm-1.1.79.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "703bbc69739c8b427ac1da06b5ecbe19627b2e11",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-8qP1FFnseVPcOms60T3MimgwPG/Ib6y8OmTAIZi4sfT9D68JDNVmLS4pS4AwEtvt4PPCuYhRMI2wd6zE/4Fivg=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/process-lhpm/MAL-2026-16178.json"