MAL-2026-17893

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/buyerdashboard/MAL-2026-17893.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-17893
Aliases
  • GHSA-gg3j-f9ff-vx42
Published
2026-10-15T13:28:14Z
Modified
2026-11-03T22:30:06Z
Summary
Malicious code in buyerdashboard (npm)
Details

buyerdashboard@45.3.4 describes itself as "User dashboard IP info". Its preinstall hook runs node index.js on npm install and requests https://realwbx.com/ip.php?ip=8.8.8.8 with the hardcoded Authorization value 8eb5e8641a5795b022d68e14d8858415, which differs from the value in each of the account's other packages. The npm account conx3993 published it on 2026-10-15, one of 9 packages from that account between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-15 whose preinstall hook calls realwbx.com.

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Source: amazon-inspector (0123ddda502251c305d70c083c8af6ac79a12010f10c15ef10e3ce32f79ac201)

buyerdashboard 45.3.4 declares preinstall: node index.js in package.json. On npm install, index.js issues an HTTPS GET at module top level to realwbx.com/ip.php with a hardcoded Authorization header value 8eb5e8641a5795b022d68e14d8858415. The beacon fires automatically and discloses to realwbx.com that the package was installed, the public source IP of the installing host or CI runner, and any request metadata the server chooses to log, correlated by the hardcoded token. realwbx.com is not a documented first-party service for this package, the README is a one-liner, and there is no opt-in or configuration surface. The manifest additionally pins a runtime dependency literally named https at ^1.0.0, a confusable-name registry package that shadows the Node core module and whose own install-time code would run alongside this beacon. The package version number (45.3.4) is implausibly high for a one-file package with a near-empty README and is consistent with a dependency-confusion placeholder designed to win internal-name resolution.

Source: ghsa-malware (6f106956c845bc98623b269643f4bc14b696b459c1709f5cc596aa9e1b420369)

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "files": [
            {
                "digests": {
                    "sha256": "da97824f68417bbbcfcfb53747c8c467afe7e1995b87b7011a3a33e9b845b253"
                },
                "note": "preinstall script: node index.js",
                "paths": [
                    "package.json"
                ],
                "source": "PACKAGE_ARCHIVE"
            },
            {
                "digests": {
                    "sha256": "95eac19024b26c749f3866a710c9ecbce2796c54345a9c4985902452195aa1b9"
                },
                "note": "Executed by the preinstall script of buyerdashboard@45.3.4.",
                "paths": [
                    "index.js"
                ],
                "source": "PACKAGE_ARCHIVE"
            }
        ],
        "urls": [
            "https://realwbx.com/ip.php"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-021886",
            "import_time": "2026-10-29T13:37:15.032230523Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-29T13:20:45Z",
            "sha256": "0123ddda502251c305d70c083c8af6ac79a12010f10c15ef10e3ce32f79ac201",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "45.3.4"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "GHSA-gg3j-f9ff-vx42",
            "import_time": "2026-11-03T22:17:46.475433539Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-11-03T22:14:20Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "6f106956c845bc98623b269643f4bc14b696b459c1709f5cc596aa9e1b420369",
            "source": "ghsa-malware"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / buyerdashboard

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

45.*
45.3.4

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"
    },
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "path": "index.js",
            "sha256": "95eac19024b26c749f3866a710c9ecbce2796c54345a9c4985902452195aa1b9",
            "tlsh": "e62186aa5ef5112107f7ba8dc50b90076123e15f240eee157a1d93a11f8213d93a3af8"
        },
        {
            "path": "package.json",
            "sha256": "da97824f68417bbbcfcfb53747c8c467afe7e1995b87b7011a3a33e9b845b253",
            "tlsh": "89e0cdb4dc609d3338c416d5487e651765e25f2715187c5a1383212caaff56745ff30e"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "buyerdashboard-45.3.4.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "3420148bec51436c347ec27d086b48bd5536403f",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-Ja/XjfLe0OMB0OQE9zZCbZwx/rd3vYND/SyW7wzN2O8De+Tz1KW6492ySDSEw3WZWgmJdjQzjmN8ZZSl06cBSw=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/buyerdashboard/MAL-2026-17893.json"