MAL-2026-16224

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/process-mite/MAL-2026-16224.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16224
Published
2026-09-16T08:40:49Z
Modified
2026-09-16T23:00:05Z
Summary
Malicious code in process-mite (npm)
Details

This package is part of a malicious npm campaign published by the max233 account. Importing the package automatically launches a detached JavaScript loader that retrieves and executes additional code from npoint.io. The retrieved payload communicates with an attacker-controlled server and implements clipboard collection, keyboard and mouse event collection, filesystem scanning, and theft of Chrome extension storage.

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Source: amazon-inspector (4763fac30373bc805351d0eb8e0989cde9dcd2ab2c1b18f9eb7bde4e61765191)

On import of the package main, index.js auto-invokes an initialize() routine that spawns a detached node loader.js process. loader.js performs an HTTPS GET against the hardcoded endpoint https://api.npoint.io/33e8d008c334b060adad, base64-decodes the code field of the returned JSON, and executes the decoded string via new Function("require","__dirname","__filename","module","exports", decodedCode)(...), granting the fetched payload full Node.js capabilities on the installer's host. npoint.io is a user-editable JSON hosting service, so the executed code is mutable by whoever controls the note and is unpinned and unverified. package.json and README present the package as a 'runtime-utils' library exporting getRuntimeInfo, but no such API is shipped; the advertised purpose is a cover story for the dropper. In-source comments self-describe the module as an embedded remote-code-execution client.

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "ips": [
            "103.170.217.184"
        ],
        "urls": [
            "https://api.npoint.io/33e8d008c334b060adad",
            "https://api.npoint.io/37c0a0c68bf7a94ed731",
            "http://103.170.217.184:8787"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-020110",
            "import_time": "2026-09-16T14:19:38.56712658Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-09-16T14:10:43Z",
            "sha256": "4763fac30373bc805351d0eb8e0989cde9dcd2ab2c1b18f9eb7bde4e61765191",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.1.79"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / process-mite

Package

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

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"
    },
    {
        "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-mite-1.1.79.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "180d464884ebda03b77540667b9c9204269f12ff",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-PMvdBGeAYd0b3xKJkGXPgkipgOiUvTMi1FWD7zC3SoI24elgHiqCk8UHTvpgpUA+HjOCpRuN2O62EBsBts9NzQ=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/process-mite/MAL-2026-16224.json"