CRITICAL npm Malware
Malicious code in chai-as-chain-v2 (npm)
MAL-2026-2886 · GHSA-89j2-wcf8-hqm3
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Description
chai-as-chain-v2 is a malicious npm package that when imported downloads a C2 dropper from https://jsonkeeper[.]com/b/FAWPU and executes it (similar to malware in to chai-await-test).
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Source: amazon-inspector (d2dd43a8df03dc914cb2bd9c028c452f5fd749767bd2c2faef275a9c840c19c5)
The package chai-as-chain-v2 was found to contain malicious code.
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