Malicious code in process-mite (npm)

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This package is part of a malicious npm campaign published by the `max233` account. Importing the package automatically launches a detached JavaScript loader that retrieves and executes additional code from npoint.io. The retrieved payload communicates with an attacker-controlled server and implements clipboard collection, keyboard and mouse event collection, filesystem scanning, and theft of Chrome extension storage. --- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (4763fac30373bc805351d0eb8e0989cde9dcd2ab2c1b18f9eb7bde4e61765191) On import of the package main, index.js auto-invokes an initialize() routine that spawns a detached `node loader.js` process. loader.js performs an HTTPS GET against the hardcoded endpoint https://api.npoint.io/33e8d008c334b060adad, base64-decodes the `code` field of the returned JSON, and executes the decoded string via `new Function("require","__dirname","__filename","module","exports", decodedCode)(...)`, granting the fetched payload full Node.js capabilities on the installer's host. npoint.io is a user-editable JSON hosting service, so the executed code is mutable by whoever controls the note and is unpinned and unverified. package.json and README present the package as a 'runtime-utils' library exporting getRuntimeInfo, but no such API is shipped; the advertised purpose is a cover story for the dropper. In-source comments self-describe the module as an embedded remote-code-execution client.

Source published

16 Sep 2026 08:40:49 UTC

Source modified

16 Sep 2026 23:00:05 UTC

Saved here

24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

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OSV · upstream source license applies

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