MAL-2026-17546

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/aria-live-region-helper/MAL-2026-17546.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-17546
Published
2026-10-05T03:37:41Z
Modified
2026-10-05T04:15:05Z
Summary
Malicious code in aria-live-region-helper (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (391a9a163273e36e3945f918ea720b8e10aa462b0aa603d4012b28c557c58570)

The package is advertised as an ARIA accessibility helper but ships thunderboltRegistry.js, which executes a top-level IIFE on module load. The IIFE runs shell reconnaissance commands via child_process.execSync (whoami, id, pwd, ifconfig/ip addr, cat /etc/hosts, hostname) and sends their output, together with a beacon containing Node version, process.platform, and PID, via HTTP GET requests to the hardcoded endpoint http://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/ef9ea0e191006f3cc6670720c99c26f3. The package also exports factories under names matching internal Wix thunderbolt registry entry points (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry, etc.) and includes a registry-manifest.min.json mapping those names to parastorage.com unpkg URLs, so that a build pipeline resolving any of those registry names to this package triggers the recon-exfiltration side effect on import. Neither the reconnaissance behavior nor the dxpoc.gt.tc destination is related to the package's advertised accessibility purpose.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-021027",
            "import_time":  "2026-10-05T03:57:39.82777631Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-10-05T03:37:41Z",
            "sha256":  "391a9a163273e36e3945f918ea720b8e10aa462b0aa603d4012b28c557c58570",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / aria-live-region-helper

Package

Name
aria-live-region-helper
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Purl
pkg:npm/aria-live-region-helper

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

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":  "thunderboltRegistry.js",
            "sha256":  "c5823a5b4efa046453d6cc532602f7dd9efa1c7a35fc5585cfcab17bcef75cbd",
            "tlsh":  "4f7143a5b99df02196c37438cf7f904ea4bb86672c2caee4744859b01f3945c01ba5f4"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "aria-live-region-helper-1.0.0.tgz",
            "hashes":  {
                "sha1":  "9f3f7368c542eb55fbc0febc99ab929045575198",
                "sha512_sri":  "sha512-Pf8LW3EPyNs+i6jwfgbCFNAxZXFAoJ4cV2zsctl34sg32M5sfZjWDWRWiu0wh7um5QoUqjWvwKLBamLNig7kjg=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/aria-live-region-helper/MAL-2026-17546.json"