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Malicious MAL-2026-6380

system-core-utils

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Jun 24, 2026 · Updated Jun 24, 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 (0a1d575b5be4daa71ffea6c37e5990b0396f864234cb5f0488c11332cdd7e4d3)
On `require`/`import`, src/index.js shell-executes a hidden PowerShell one-liner that downloads `launcher.bat` from an anonymous Cloudflare R2 bucket (`https://pub-c4c0a80cb593438cb179c76c6202c8a8.r2.dev/launcher.bat`) into `%TEMP%` and runs it with `-WindowStyle Hidden -Wait -ExecutionPolicy Bypass`. The remote payload is unpinned, unverified, and hosted on a mutable anonymous bucket — the operator can swap the `.bat` content at any time. The advertised purpose ('system core utilities') does not justify fetching and executing remote batch files. Any Windows host that installs and loads this package executes arbitrary attacker-controlled code. The tarball additionally ships `deze.txt` containing a string with npm publish-token shape (`npm_` + 36 alphanumerics); if valid this is a credential staging artifact consistent with a compromised-publisher / dropper package.