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Malicious MAL-2026-16317 GHSA-x8qg-wc79-vfhh

testmgkregme

npm package · versions 1.0.1

Reported Sep 21, 2026 · Updated Oct 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 (496e8021fd5e2626c503e2ceeed8349ff15c68c71a5f19d8a57c67e5f1b41863)
npm package testmgkregme@1.0.1 uses a binding.gyp whose `sources` field employs GYP command-expansion (`<!(env node index.js...; echo stub.c)`) to run `node index.js` during `node-gyp rebuild`, which npm invokes automatically when a binding.gyp is present. No native source files (.c/.cc/.cpp/.h) are shipped, so the binding.gyp exists solely to trigger install-time code execution rather than to build a native addon. The executed index.js is a 2.9 MB single-IIFE wrapper: an outer Caesar-cipher (ROT k=4) layer is passed to `eval`, and the decoded body then AES-128-GCM-decrypts hardcoded hex ciphertexts with a hardcoded key/IV/authTag and `eval`s the plaintext. The multi-layer ROT->eval->AES->eval construction has no legitimate purpose and conceals the runtime payload from static review. The result is that `npm install testmgkregme` causes opaque attacker-authored JavaScript to execute on the installer's machine with the installer's privileges.

Source: ghsa-malware (232bcd8cfd23f7b114b95fb7b57074ef43203a0f27579ab9dd475dec57a87f6e)
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.