MAL-2026-5456

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/via-city-tools-m-particle/MAL-2026-5456.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-5456
Aliases
  • GHSA-6wg4-xxqc-hw9h
Published
2026-06-09T17:29:25Z
Modified
2026-06-29T17:31:54.223191957Z
Summary
Malicious code in via-city-tools-m-particle (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (bc5c4f690e0399edc4408e7729291803db7916ed764bcfe16988f4cdccd5cfc1)

The package exports an empty object (module.exports = {}) and has no functionality of its own. Its only substantive effect is to declare a dependency on ltidisafe pinned to the off-registry tarball URL https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-2.7.6.tgz. Installing this package causes npm to fetch and install that arbitrary tarball — hosted in a generic Google Cloud Storage bucket with no registry integrity guarantees and no publisher binding — and any lifecycle scripts (preinstall/install/postinstall) inside it run automatically on the installer's machine. The package metadata is hollow (empty description, empty author, no repository), and the unscoped name via-city-tools-m-particle resembles legitimate scoped tooling, consistent with a dependency-confusion lure whose only purpose is to smuggle the off-registry tarball into target build environments.

Source: ghsa-malware (1b35056794033f2fabe597e51faa2ec27668923b74527f12fbf861bb3e941ca8)

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 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "versions": [
                "99.9.1"
            ],
            "sha256": "154a8595ab694cc8aa24f5b7f09922ac9a6a26fe8c5a22c6297a64d129a11cff",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-09T17:29:25Z",
            "import_time": "2026-06-09T17:45:52.199270128Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-005064"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "99.9.1"
            ],
            "sha256": "bc5c4f690e0399edc4408e7729291803db7916ed764bcfe16988f4cdccd5cfc1",
            "modified_time": "2026-06-09T17:29:25Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "import_time": "2026-06-09T17:45:52.138794521Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-005063"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "1b35056794033f2fabe597e51faa2ec27668923b74527f12fbf861bb3e941ca8",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "SEMVER"
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-06-29T16:53:34Z",
            "source": "ghsa-malware",
            "import_time": "2026-06-29T17:14:01.249097766Z",
            "id": "GHSA-6wg4-xxqc-hw9h"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / via-city-tools-m-particle

Package

Name
via-city-tools-m-particle
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/via-city-tools-m-particle

Affected ranges

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

Affected versions

99.*
99.9.1

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "via-city-tools-m-particle-99.9.1.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-wmpoVGcUxlmr6mR5Tsrr2+hk0c5wKgi6ZuIMCkd2RFU7EgG6H7oaEqoL3UoZaTdkbDE8X/Vyb20Pr0BlSjAjcw==",
                "sha1": "6f8b17a675d74840aafae5c31fdbd65b6574b9dd"
            }
        }
    ],
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "52254a78e73e653c9c6d992222ebd054cb0aa31e9ed005a03db680b766ea022d",
            "path": "package.json",
            "tlsh": "40e07d24467156330ec500b24c2ed54bf3b18e4f0408bc0d5beb041c41cda7328f939c"
        }
    ],
    "domains": [
        "7363616e.via-city-tools-m-particle.gau0k96xfmrrj6vau57v92w6yx4psfg4.oastify.com",
        "7363616e2d666531613433643235333732.via-city-tools-m-particle.gau0k96xfmrrj6vau57v92w6yx4psfg4.oastify.com",
        "2f686f6d652f7363616e.via-city-tools-m-particle.gau0k96xfmrrj6vau57v92w6yx4psfg4.oastify.com",
        "ltidi.storage.googleapis.com"
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/via-city-tools-m-particle/MAL-2026-5456.json"
cwes 
[
    {
        "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"
    }
]