MAL-2026-16385

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/tlxbnhd/MAL-2026-16385.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16385
Published
2026-09-22T14:52:21Z
Modified
2026-09-22T15:31:47Z
Summary
Malicious code in tlxbnhd (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (e415dbf226269704c2cd28b1783cf594f96880dd4688b26caf7f25a19e268237)

The tlxbnhd package ships obfuscated preinstall.js and postinstall.js lifecycle scripts that, on npm install, download two files from https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png (an anonymous image-hosting URL disguised with a.png extension), write them into the package directory as gldriver_pre_core.exe and gldriver_pre_asset.exe, and launch them using platform-specific commands (start on Windows, open on macOS, xdg-open/mspaint on Linux). After launch the scripts unlink the dropped files to remove traces. The URLs, filenames, and shell commands are hidden inside an obfuscator.io-style rotating string array with an index-shifting IIFE. The same dropper runs from both preinstall and postinstall, so it executes twice per install.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-020291",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-22T15:18:38.079043655Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-22T14:52:21Z",
            "sha256":  "e415dbf226269704c2cd28b1783cf594f96880dd4688b26caf7f25a19e268237",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "0.0.1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / tlxbnhd

Package

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

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":  "7acf331117900179b483142f216fdcb22c671eb0b1971abd57f01bc036248a6e",
            "tlsh":  "51b1a59650f0289333a38af6a62fa0d2f36bc51932d6c983e41c69957f8d83dc5d2874"
        },
        {
            "path":  "scripts/postinstall.js",
            "sha256":  "7acf331117900179b483142f216fdcb22c671eb0b1971abd57f01bc036248a6e",
            "tlsh":  "51b1a59650f0289333a38af6a62fa0d2f36bc51932d6c983e41c69957f8d83dc5d2874"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "tlxbnhd-0.0.1.tgz",
            "hashes":  {
                "sha1":  "9318479b2218444e9cece69f098766301e5477e8",
                "sha512_sri":  "sha512-6lLS5TqE3UwOdU7spXWBoXtHr22PeDJ4Y/gWc8+yX1Q58a8d+9IHOmtNebzpo/QZ4gP2rlf5PCH8so3q+rIpfg=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/tlxbnhd/MAL-2026-16385.json"