Malicious code in chromatitle-js (npm)
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (eff7b9f53e0aed7a8a1c48ae92851ea0ed67b86566d208c78329ecb1b8a73173) src/index.js unconditionally invokes _bootstrap() from src/utils/bootstrap.js at module load time. bootstrap.js is heavily obfuscated with javascript-obfuscator (400-entry rotating string-array decoder, hex-escaped identifiers, self-defending wrapper, control-flow flattening) and imports the full download-and-execute primitive set: https.get/http.get, fs.createWriteStream, fs.mkdirSync, fs.chmodSync, fs.unlinkSync, os.tmpdir, and child_process.execFile/spawn. The destination URL, dropped filename, and executed argv are reconstructed at runtime from the obfuscated string array, so the network target and payload are concealed from static inspection. package.json declares javascript-obfuscator as a devDependency and defines an `obfuscate` build script, confirming the concealment is deliberate. The advertised purpose of the package is terminal string coloring / title setting, which does not require fetching or executing a binary at import time. Any consumer that imports chromatitle-js triggers the fetch-and-execute chain on the installer's machine.
Malicious code in chromatitle-js (npm)
Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (eff7b9f53e0aed7a8a1c48ae92851ea0ed67b86566d208c78329ecb1b8a73173) src/index.js unconditionally invokes _bootstrap() from src/utils/bootstrap.js at module load time. bootstrap.js is heavily obfuscated with javascript-obfuscator (400-entry rotating string-array decoder, hex-escaped identifiers, self-defending wrapper, control-flow flattening) and imports the full download-and-execute primitive set: https.get/http.get, fs.createWriteStream, fs.mkdirSync, fs.chmodSync, fs.unlinkSync, os.tmpdir, and child_process.execFile/spawn. The destination URL, dropped filename, and executed argv are reconstructed at runtime from the obfuscated string array, so the network target and payload are concealed from static inspection. package.json declares javascript-obfuscator as a devDependency and defines an `obfuscate` build script, confirming the concealment is deliberate. The advertised purpose of the package is terminal string coloring / title setting, which does not require fetching or executing a binary at import time. Any consumer that imports chromatitle-js triggers the fetch-and-execute chain on the installer's machine.
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- MAL-2026-17174
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.4
- Ecosystems
- ["npm"]
Threat ID: 6ab5fb95f7a7c5410655d1a5
Added to database: 09/25/2026, 04:41:57 UTC
Last updated: 09/25/2026, 04:41:57 UTC
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