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MAL-2026-11130

Malicious code in array-node-utils (npm)

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## Source: amazon-inspector (c0dbd4ffa55ee3a0972b3e5e3fef599244049244d9f996a9d8b809a3a3a53e1a) The package's main file index.js is a heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io RC4+base64 string-array) module whose top-level IIFE runs on require(). It loads https, path, os, fs, child_process, and crypto; assembles a 4-octet host string via repeated.concat calls to hide the destination; issues an https GET; pipes the response through crypto.createDecipheriv (AES) with a sha256-derived key; writes the decrypted bytes to a file under os.tmpdir(); and executes that file via child_process with windowsHide and cwd set to the user's home directory. The package's declared purpose ('array-node-utils') has no relationship to the shipped code — the module contains no array-handling logic, only the fetch-decrypt-exec chain.

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