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Malicious MAL-2026-13963

vexium-kit

npm package · versions 10.0.2, 2.0.2

Reported Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 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 (81256cad9a270a808ce5e9cb2d6987aef06c2c236baa7ae76b8172c40ee61dd9)
On require, index.js issues an HTTPS request to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint https://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/116 and passes the response's `credits` field to `new Function('require','module',...,'Promise', data.credits)`, executing operator-controlled JavaScript with `require`, `process`, and `Buffer` in scope. The remote-eval sink is named `getPlugin`, accompanied by an unused `setDefaultModule` decoy referencing font-awesome CDN paths, while the README advertises the package as a zero-dependency utility toolkit. Declared dependencies (`@primno/dpapi`, `better-sqlite3`, `sqlite3`, `node-machine-id`) match the toolkit shape used to decrypt Chromium DPAPI-protected cookies/passwords and read browser Login Data databases, indicating the operator-supplied payload's intended follow-on capability against the installer.