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Malicious MAL-2026-6086

ai-chat-helper

npm package · versions 1.0.9, 1.0.2, 1.0.1

Reported Jun 17, 2026 · Updated Jun 17, 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 (39a12d35a8713a8f63eaf342901214a7f53fa396b9ee8218d246e5e0db7b6318)
collect.js performs system reconnaissance and exfiltration to a hardcoded attacker-controlled host. The script imports child_process, os, fs, http, and https; reads os.hostname(), os.homedir(), and inspects local filesystem paths via fs.existsSync; and POSTs the collected data to http://aab.sportsontheweb.net (line 13/line 366). The destination is an unrelated third-party domain over cleartext HTTP, with no relationship to any documented chat-helper functionality. This is the canonical credential/host-info beacon shape: child_process for command execution, os for host identity, fs for local file enumeration, and a hardcoded HTTP POST to an attacker domain.