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Malicious MAL-2026-13364

@ikbal_fadilah_vanexa01/vanexa-agent

npm package · versions 1.3.10, 1.3.19, 1.3.23, 1.1.53, 1.3.17, 1.3.8, 1.1.54, 1.2.0, 1.1.55, 1.3.34, 1.3.3, 1.1.58, 1.1.59, 1.3.14, 1.3.32, 1.3.44, 1.3.9, 1.3.40, 1.3.29, 1.3.15, 1.3.31, 1.1.56, 1.1.57, 1.3.27, 1.3.35, 1.3…

Reported Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 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 (52b1477c5187703dab87d6be6933d62de4c4244ab3340586f85b530e05470aa1)
Package ships an agent daemon (`vanexa-agent start`, entry `bin/vanexa-agent.js`) that receives commands from a remote phone app and executes them on the installer's host via `child_process`/`spawn`, including `powershell.exe` and inline JS/Python evaluation. Rather than the LAN-only WebSocket architecture described in the README (which claims BYOK with `no middleman`), the compiled bundle hardcodes two Cloudflare Workers endpoints — `vanexa-agent-relay.hanazaki542.workers.dev` and `vanexa-ai-proxy.hanazaki542.workers.dev` — hosted on a personal Cloudflare account (`hanazaki542`) that does not match the npm publisher (`ikbalsakata500445jensen`). Commands from the phone client and, via the AI proxy path, user-supplied prompt content and API tokens transit this third-party intermediary before reaching the local execution sinks on the installer's machine. The primary runtime is shipped as V8 bytecode (`dist/bundle.jsc`) produced from `dist/bundle.cjs` at postinstall via `bytenode.compileFile`, and the bin entry loads that bytecode with `require(bytecodePath)`, reducing auditability of the network-driven exec path. The combination — network-sourced commands flowing into local shell/child_process, a hardcoded author-controlled relay whose ownership does not match the publisher, and a bytecode-compiled payload — makes normal operator use of this agent equivalent to granting the relay operator remote command execution on the installer's host.