Malicious code in statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics (npm)
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (1d33f2eedc8cb8fc1d7e0c4f680b0024ddf9e4ab444ef7e52ec5b13a7b773fb2) On require(), index.js loads _shim.js which selects a platform-specific payload path, fetches a native binary from Cloudflare Workers subdomains whose hostnames are assembled at runtime from string-array fragments joined with.join(""), or falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel that queries c.<domain> and N.<domain> and base64-decodes the concatenated TXT records into binary. The retrieved bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_<rand> on Unix, dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe on Windows), chmod'd to 0o755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd /c start. There is no pinning, no hash or signature verification, and the delivery hosts are anonymous Cloudflare Workers subdomains and a DNS-TXT channel — not a publisher-owned release surface. The hostname obfuscation and TXT-record covert channel are inconsistent with any legitimate observability or telemetry function.
Malicious code in statist-browser-typed-client-twork.tsales.nitro.metrics (npm)
Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (1d33f2eedc8cb8fc1d7e0c4f680b0024ddf9e4ab444ef7e52ec5b13a7b773fb2) On require(), index.js loads _shim.js which selects a platform-specific payload path, fetches a native binary from Cloudflare Workers subdomains whose hostnames are assembled at runtime from string-array fragments joined with.join(""), or falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel that queries c.<domain> and N.<domain> and base64-decodes the concatenated TXT records into binary. The retrieved bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_<rand> on Unix, dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe on Windows), chmod'd to 0o755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd /c start. There is no pinning, no hash or signature verification, and the delivery hosts are anonymous Cloudflare Workers subdomains and a DNS-TXT channel — not a publisher-owned release surface. The hostname obfuscation and TXT-record covert channel are inconsistent with any legitimate observability or telemetry function.
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- MAL-2026-12455
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.4
- Aliases
- []
- Ecosystems
- ["npm"]
- Database Specific Severity
- null
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a73574dbf8831d53915a4e8
Added to database: 08/05/2026, 15:31:25 UTC
Last updated: 08/05/2026, 15:31:25 UTC
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