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MAL-2026-11939

Malicious code in @servicetitan/titan-chatbot-api (npm)

Details

npm/@servicetitan/titan-chatbot-api is affected by the large-scale, self-propagating npm supply-chain worm of 2026-08-04 (the "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again" wave) — the same campaign that began with the compromise of the keyv and cacheable maintainer account. The listed version(s) were trojanized and republished by the worm after it reached an npm publish token belonging to a maintainer in this namespace; the payload enumerates every package a stolen token controls and republishes each with the same hook, so many packages under this scope were poisoned in the same short window. Every poisoned release adds a preinstall hook (`"preinstall": "node setup.mjs"`) that runs on a bare `npm install`, before any project code. setup.mjs downloads a standalone Bun runtime and runs a byte-identical, heavily obfuscated ~728 KB second-stage credential stealer (shipped as Math_Symbol.js / math_init.js). It harvests GitHub, npm, AWS, GCP, Azure, HashiCorp Vault and Kubernetes credentials plus generic secrets and private keys (TruffleHog-style sweep), reads CI/CD secrets and identifies build runners, then republishes further packages the stolen token can reach. Rather than a fixed command-and-control host, it exfiltrates stolen findings to attacker-created GitHub repositories (descriptions reading "Shai-Hulud: Here We Go Again") and over DNS. Treat any environment that installed an affected version (with install scripts enabled) as compromised: rotate and revoke all reachable credentials (npm and GitHub tokens, cloud keys, Vault/Kubernetes secrets, and CI org/repo secrets). Part of the August 2026 npm worm that poisoned 400+ packages across many organizations.

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## Source: amazon-inspector (d49fc8b6453f655393e53ba3e584ef2ff9209d695cc65b2260ad8f85db362a21) The package's package.json declares scripts.preinstall="node setup.mjs". setup.mjs downloads the Bun runtime binary from https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/releases/download/bun-v<version>/<...>.zip, chmods it executable, and invokes it via execFileSync on a sibling file math_init.js shipped inside the tarball. math_init.js is a 727,680-byte Bun-compiled CJS bundle (header `// @bun @bun-cjs`) with rotated string-array obfuscation, numeric dictionaries, and randomized identifiers (e.g. MmgoCP, etDiOOB, WV8StW). setup.mjs itself uses identifier obfuscation (`_0x` naming, string dictionaries). The advertised purpose of the package is an NSwag-generated REST chatbot API client (dist/api-client/...), which has no functional need for a bundled Bun-only executable. Fetching an alternate runtime at preinstall to execute an obfuscated bundled payload is the alternate-runtime-dropper pattern: the code that actually runs on the installer's machine is hidden from Node-based analysis inside a Bun-compiled bundle. The package name and repository URL present as a ServiceTitan first-party scope (@servicetitan/*, github.com/servicetitan/titan-chatbot-client), giving the drop cover-story branding against ServiceTitan customers and internal build systems.

## Source: ghsa-malware (25410adfd400df441f76dc298a82a281dac3ac6bf24964ed37ec9d635267a032) 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.

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Affected packages

npm / @servicetitan/titan-chatbot-api

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