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Malicious MAL-2026-12401

mcp-audit-sync-internal

npm package · versions 99.9.9

Reported Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (897822fdfb08c83d7d949c16e497d6897b9b679cc2f05a0409b1ec369a1f10fc)
mcp-audit-sync-internal@99.9.9 declares scripts.preinstall = 'node index.js'. On Windows, index.js spawns a hidden PowerShell process that fetches a ZIP from https://files.catbox.moe/5khq55.zip, expands it into %TEMP%, and then Start-Process's the extracted Verification_Tool.exe. The remote artifact is unpinned, unverified (no hash or signature check), delivered from an anonymous throwaway file host unrelated to the package publisher, and the fetch/execute is hidden from the user via -WindowStyle Hidden. This fires automatically on npm install, yielding arbitrary code execution on any Windows installer's host. Package metadata ('Administrative sync tool for corporate environments', author 'IT Compliance') and the 'Verification_Tool.exe' filename are cover-story framing that mismatches the actual behavior; the 99.9.9 version is a placeholder-sentinel shape.