Malicious code in alpha-helper (npm)
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (9758eecca0cf755a3c7cc43115b413dfda31f149bbeed40cdfaeb5e46d739efb) The exported getPlugin in index.js issues an HTTPS request to a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint at 46.183.25.232:45000/icons/116 and passes the response field data.credits into a new Function(...) constructor with require, module, process, Buffer, and Promise bound into scope. Any consumer calling the exported function runs attacker-controlled JavaScript with full Node privileges. index.js also contains a decoy setDefaultModule that builds cdnjs-style font-awesome URLs across cloudflare/fastly/jsdelivr hostnames, which is not on the reachable code path. The package.json describes the module as a lightweight utility toolkit while the README describes an unrelated gamified trading system, and declared runtime dependencies include @primno/dpapi (Windows DPAPI unwrap), better-sqlite3, and node-machine-id, consistent with staging for browser-credential extraction.
MAL-2026-12338
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:MAL-2026-12338
alpha-helper
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- 1.3.4
Source reference:
/affected/0/versions - Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"package": {
"name": "alpha-helper",
"purl": "pkg:npm/alpha-helper",
"ecosystem": "npm"
},
"versions": [
"1.3.4"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwes": [
{
"name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
"cweId": "CWE-506",
"description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."
}
],
"source": "https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/alpha-helper/MAL-2026-12338.json",
"indicators": {
"evidence_files": [
{
"path": "index.js",
"tlsh": "98c16f6546fa21a36a67e4eef30f100271a5e313365de971f48e42902fca568e5f24e8",
"sha256": "771076c5104a94f76808da0fa6c00da8210c0194c10a6e3397a1e24b8ff54c7f"
}
],
"package_integrity": [
{
"hashes": {
"sha1": "14ef0e89161df4ea236293e883e7e0f5abcfeb3d",
"sha512_sri": "sha512-J8HplQ3c4hYcrL1unaU0mJia8W4zDZ48xmCFuwfnV2oLElfveuf5xtWrm6YXvTg15epafrM6in9LW76OF/HZnQ=="
},
"filename": "alpha-helper-1.3.4.tgz"
}
]
}
}
}
]Publisher severity
No explicit severity was provided.
- Event
- #10959 · Revision 1
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