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Malicious code in aria-live-region-helper (npm)

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--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (391a9a163273e36e3945f918ea720b8e10aa462b0aa603d4012b28c557c58570) The package is advertised as an ARIA accessibility helper but ships thunderboltRegistry.js, which executes a top-level IIFE on module load. The IIFE runs shell reconnaissance commands via child_process.execSync (whoami, id, pwd, ifconfig/ip addr, cat /etc/hosts, hostname) and sends their output, together with a beacon containing Node version, process.platform, and PID, via HTTP GET requests to the hardcoded endpoint http://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/ef9ea0e191006f3cc6670720c99c26f3. The package also exports factories under names matching internal Wix thunderbolt registry entry points (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry, etc.) and includes a registry-manifest.min.json mapping those names to parastorage.com unpkg URLs, so that a build pipeline resolving any of those registry names to this package triggers the recon-exfiltration side effect on import. Neither the reconnaissance behavior nor the dxpoc.gt.tc destination is related to the package's advertised accessibility purpose.

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MAL-2026-17546

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: osv:MAL-2026-17546

aria-live-region-helper

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Affected versions
1.0.0

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": "aria-live-region-helper",
      "purl": "pkg:npm/aria-live-region-helper",
      "ecosystem": "npm"
    },
    "versions": [
      "1.0.0"
    ],
    "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/aria-live-region-helper/MAL-2026-17546.json",
      "indicators": {
        "evidence_files": [
          {
            "path": "thunderboltRegistry.js",
            "tlsh": "4f7143a5b99df02196c37438cf7f904ea4bb86672c2caee4744859b01f3945c01ba5f4",
            "sha256": "c5823a5b4efa046453d6cc532602f7dd9efa1c7a35fc5585cfcab17bcef75cbd"
          }
        ],
        "package_integrity": [
          {
            "hashes": {
              "sha1": "9f3f7368c542eb55fbc0febc99ab929045575198",
              "sha512_sri": "sha512-Pf8LW3EPyNs+i6jwfgbCFNAxZXFAoJ4cV2zsctl34sg32M5sfZjWDWRWiu0wh7um5QoUqjWvwKLBamLNig7kjg=="
            },
            "filename": "aria-live-region-helper-1.0.0.tgz"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
]

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