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Malicious MAL-2026-12421 GHSA-9352-468r-x8fr

pvm-autodoc

npm package · versions 20.4.6

Reported Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 21, 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 (b4f92e3ecba043a713f37e35f3162b1454e17991b2860c0923a6aa8fced87c6d)
On require('pvm-autodoc'), index.js loads _bridge.js which downloads a platform-specific native binary from one of four hardcoded Cloudflare Workers subdomains (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a DNS TXT base64 chunked fallback under *.dl.well1.site. The destination hostnames are constructed by string-splitting and joining at runtime to evade static analysis. The fetched bytes are written to /var/tmp/.cache_<hex> on POSIX or %TEMP%\dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows (a name mimicking a Microsoft diagnostic tool), chmod 0755'd, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd /c start. Opt-out variables and file naming are framed as 'analytics'/'telemetry' while the actual behavior is fetch-and-execute of an unpinned, unverified opaque native binary. A second file, lib/telemetry.js, is shipped in the tarball with the same fetch-decode-chmod-spawn primitives using concatenated API names ('child_'+'process', 'chmod'+'Sync') as a companion payload.

Source: ghsa-malware (407a5375877220239a322683461f343d08a1566ebd5ba3c0b8056af2729f8bb3)
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.