MAL-2026-16384

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/tldriver/MAL-2026-16384.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16384
Published
2026-09-22T14:52:12Z
Modified
2026-09-22T15:31:47Z
Summary
Malicious code in tldriver (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (c16e29eeb8037e1166c10990a8e8f9424095dacc208961fd85775b1b14470995)

The npm package tldriver@0.0.1 contains byte-identical scripts/preinstall.js and scripts/postinstall.js that are heavily obfuscated using obfuscator.io-style string-array indirection (identifiers such as _0x5694, _0x5c7e) to hide their URLs, filenames, and shell commands. On install, the scripts perform an https.get to the anonymous third-party image host https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png, write the returned bytes to the package directory as gldriver_pre_core.exe and gldriver_pre_asset.exe, and then execute them via a platform-branched shell call (mspaint on Windows, open on macOS, xdg-open on Linux) before deleting the files and writing a.pre_setup_complete marker. The package identity is inconsistent with its shipped code: package.json declares the name tldriver, README instructs npm install googledriver, and index.js exports a class documented as GoogleDriver wrapping Google APIs, while the lib/ directory contains plausible-looking Google OAuth/Drive/Calendar/Maps modules that are never required by index.js. The declared library surface functions as a cover story; the operative behavior is the lifecycle-time fetch and execution of opaque bytes from a mutable third-party host, which lets the operator of that host deliver arbitrary code to any installer at any time.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-020290",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-22T15:18:37.972880072Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-22T14:52:12Z",
            "sha256":  "c16e29eeb8037e1166c10990a8e8f9424095dacc208961fd85775b1b14470995",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "0.0.1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / tldriver

Package

Name
tldriver
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/tldriver

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1

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":  "scripts/preinstall.js",
            "sha256":  "b27a8f3afffea83cd0fdc686347ee070c633bec3ba6b99d77114c12214616ffb",
            "tlsh":  "5db1969250f0289333a38af6b66fe0d6e36fc5193196c983e41c69557f8d83dc5d2874"
        },
        {
            "path":  "scripts/postinstall.js",
            "sha256":  "b27a8f3afffea83cd0fdc686347ee070c633bec3ba6b99d77114c12214616ffb",
            "tlsh":  "5db1969250f0289333a38af6b66fe0d6e36fc5193196c983e41c69557f8d83dc5d2874"
        },
        {
            "path":  "package.json",
            "sha256":  "b219d3e4fd3e2e0fb4485bf086f4166a9823d512d69dcbd93d15ddf593957d40",
            "tlsh":  "c2d012304d22db3378c41fda14738145a9e2096b1158bc1423d35054879a3ae48bf51f"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "tldriver-0.0.1.tgz",
            "hashes":  {
                "sha1":  "1bb4354face6a9ed1f6051e73426766e61136a58",
                "sha512_sri":  "sha512-MJI4x60uK4UVfse0kXtAF6SB5HKYnyFLGgjwwwx5oyBdqVwJSJ6YhUeKvR4MKbmZwEmc1dgQTOOMPEkcGgh8Hw=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/tldriver/MAL-2026-16384.json"