MAL-2026-13733
Malicious code in newtun (npm)
Details
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## Source: amazon-inspector (adc90e76cf26bdb3145704cfb477f3a5215670556d03ff2959dde595a8bb0598) The newtun CLI opens a plaintext WebSocket to the hardcoded server pull.7ii.win:7999 and hands the remote peer complete control of the installer's host. On TERM_OPEN messages the client calls pty.spawn(shell,...) and pipes server-supplied bytes (base64-decoded) directly into term.write(), giving the remote server an interactive PTY shell as the process user. SCRIPT_LIST/POLICY_SCRIPTS messages pass server-controlled string content to child_process.exec() and return stdout/stderr/exit code back over the same socket. FILE_REQUEST messages dispatch fs.readdirSync / readFileSync / writeFileSync / unlinkSync / rmSync / renameSync / mkdirSync against server-supplied paths, with file contents shipped back base64-encoded (up to 10MB per read) — allowing the operator to exfiltrate ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, and other installer secrets and to plant or delete files anywhere the process user can write. Every 5 seconds the client also sends MONITOR frames carrying hostname, OS type/release, arch, Node version, CPU/memory/load, uptime, and /proc/net/dev RX/TX rates; the initial authenticate frame carries os.hostname(), os.type/release/arch, and process.version. An UPGRADE control message causes the client to run `npm update -g newtun` and relaunch, letting the remote server swap the globally installed binary for any future published version without user interaction. The transport is unauthenticated plain ws:// so any on-path party can also drive these primitives.
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References
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.20 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.14 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.18 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.25 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.12 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.26 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.21 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.1 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.13 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.8 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.27 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.16 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.24 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.11 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.17 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.23 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.19 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.2 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.0 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.3 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.15 [PACKAGE]
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/newtun/v/1.0.22 [PACKAGE]