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Malicious MAL-2026-13865

@years18/n8n-nodes-utils-helper-u

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Aug 12, 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 (2e6a7fb247eadeb1f59c123721fdc49078bb1b723f80ed10f2a29c1c04eb04df)
The package's postinstall script (duplicated as the main module) runs unconditionally on npm install. It executes `id` and `hostname`, base64-encodes the output, and transmits it as a query-string parameter to a hardcoded HTTPS endpoint at jasabersama.id/portfolio-data.php with TLS certificate validation explicitly disabled (rejectUnauthorized: false). The same lifecycle hook installs the Python `impacket` package system-wide via `pip --break-system-packages` and invokes `/tmp/mhddos/start.py`, an MHDDoS attack launcher, weaponizing the installer host for outbound denial-of-service activity. The URL also carries a `c=` parameter conveying a shell command that decodes attacker-controlled bytes into `/tmp/n8n_rce_result.txt`, providing a command-staging channel back to the same remote endpoint.