🛡️ MAL-2026-13521 — services
Description
Malicious code in @rbxst/services (npm)
Source: amazon-inspector
scripts/postinstall.js runs at npm install time. On Windows it downloads a ZIP archive from https://files.catbox.moe/rp8idk.zip (anonymous file-hosting service, mutable content), uses PowerShell Expand-Archive to unpack it to a randomized temp directory, then spawns a bundled pythonw.exe against exec_.py with detached:true, stdio:'ignore', windowsHide:true, and child.unref(), so the fetched payload runs hidden and outlives the npm process. The script exits silently on non-Windows platforms. The package advertises roblox-ts service type utilities and has no legitimate need to fetch and execute a Python interpreter from an anonymous file host. This matches the alternate-runtime dropper pattern from known-bad infrastructure: an opaque remote payload executes on the installer's machine with the installer's privileges.
Affected software
MAL-2026-13521 is recorded against 1 package.
- @rbxst/services
Timeline and source
Published on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.
References
Details
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| @rbxst/services | — | — |
References
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