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🛡️ MAL-2026-10580 — ethers-core

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

Malicious code in ethers-core (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

Package name typosquats the popular 'ethers' library. package.json declares a postinstall pointing at dist/index.min.js, whose sole top-level statement is eval(Buffer.from('<base64>','base64').toString()). The decoded payload enumerates installer secrets (env vars including PRIVATE_KEY, MNEMONIC, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN; files including.env, ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.npmrc, wallet.json, keystore.json, seed.txt) and POSTs them to a hardcoded Telegram bot endpoint at api.telegram.org. Any 64-hex or WIF private key recovered is loaded into an ethers.Wallet, balance-checked against cloudflare-eth.com, and drained via sendTransaction to hardcoded attacker ETH/BTC addresses (ETH 0x72bC6c85847136..., BTC bc1qvg0vmlxf2ly248my69r2k6zut8s4q93j9mqvtf); BTC transactions are pushed via blockchain.info/pushtx. Persistence is established by appending 'node /tmp/sys-core.js &' to ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, and ~/.profile, writing ~/.config/autostart/sys-core.desktop, and dropping /tmp/sys-core.js, which polls an attacker webhook via child_process.exec. A companion config/attacker-config.json ships the attacker's Telegram bot token, chat_id, wallet destinations, and target secret path/env-var list.

Affected software

MAL-2026-10580 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ethers-core

Timeline and source

Published on 14 July 2026 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.npmjs.com (Package)
www.npmjs.com (Package)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-07-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ethers-core

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