Malicious code in syspo (npm)
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (6f89c590b7c90182cb86bc3e45f71f2357003f4359b6e94818fc996951762f5c) The package is published as a 'System binary configuration tool' but its actual behavior is a covert clipboard/screen-capture overlay. On invocation (npx/bin entry), index.js spawns pointer.py, which installs a global clipboard monitor and an Alt+S full-screen screenshot hotkey; clipboard text and base64-encoded screenshots are POSTed to the hardcoded endpoint https://iq-overlay-pointer.vercel.app/api with no configuration option for the destination and no user disclosure. To bootstrap that payload, index.js silently downloads python-3.12.3-amd64.exe from python.org into TEMP and runs it with `/quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1`, then runs `pip install` for keyboard, pyautogui, mss, pywin32, and uiautomation — a full language runtime and input/screen-capture toolchain installed without any prompt. pointer.py also registers system-wide keyboard hooks (ctrl+c/v, alt+s, f8/f9/f10, alt+m, alt+1..5, ctrl+q panic-exit) and an always-on-top transparent Tk overlay (`-topmost`, `overrideredirect`), and types attacker-controlled responses back via pyautogui. The package.json metadata (description 'System binary configuration tool', keywords system/binary/util/config, author 'SysDev') is a cover story unrelated to the shipped functionality.
Malicious code in syspo (npm)
Description
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (6f89c590b7c90182cb86bc3e45f71f2357003f4359b6e94818fc996951762f5c) The package is published as a 'System binary configuration tool' but its actual behavior is a covert clipboard/screen-capture overlay. On invocation (npx/bin entry), index.js spawns pointer.py, which installs a global clipboard monitor and an Alt+S full-screen screenshot hotkey; clipboard text and base64-encoded screenshots are POSTed to the hardcoded endpoint https://iq-overlay-pointer.vercel.app/api with no configuration option for the destination and no user disclosure. To bootstrap that payload, index.js silently downloads python-3.12.3-amd64.exe from python.org into TEMP and runs it with `/quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1`, then runs `pip install` for keyboard, pyautogui, mss, pywin32, and uiautomation — a full language runtime and input/screen-capture toolchain installed without any prompt. pointer.py also registers system-wide keyboard hooks (ctrl+c/v, alt+s, f8/f9/f10, alt+m, alt+1..5, ctrl+q panic-exit) and an always-on-top transparent Tk overlay (`-topmost`, `overrideredirect`), and types attacker-controlled responses back via pyautogui. The package.json metadata (description 'System binary configuration tool', keywords system/binary/util/config, author 'SysDev') is a cover story unrelated to the shipped functionality.
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- MAL-2026-6406
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.4
- Aliases
- []
- Ecosystems
- ["npm"]
- Database Specific Severity
- null
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a735741bf8831d539155ea4
Added to database: 08/05/2026, 15:31:13 UTC
Last updated: 08/05/2026, 15:31:13 UTC
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