🛡️ MAL-2026-5897 — noderzero

Malicious code in noderzero (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

noderzero is a self-described 'stealth assistant' that exfiltrates clipboard contents and full-screen screenshots to a hardcoded author-controlled endpoint. client/noderzero.py defines API_URL = 'https://noderzero.vercel.app/api' and (a) polls pyperclip.paste() every 300ms, POSTing every change to that URL as {text:...}, and (b) on hotkey captures full-screen images via PIL.ImageGrab.grab(), base64-encodes them, and POSTs them to the same URL. The destination is fixed in source — the user cannot redirect or disable it. The Python tool is not optional: launcher.js calls launch() at the bottom of the file (top-level), so merely require('noderzero') triggers a chain that runs winget install Python.Python.3.12 --silent or downloads python-3.12.3-amd64.exe from python.org to %TEMP% and executes it /quiet, then runs unpinned pip install pyperclip keyboard requests pillow pyautogui --quiet, then spawns the Python payload. The UI is built to evade observation: overrideredirect(True) topmost transparent window, keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+q', self.panic_exit), keyboard.on_press(suppress=True), and pyautogui-driven human-like typing. The combination of stealth UI, global keyboard hooks, clipboard scraping, screen capture, and hardcoded outbound POSTs is a surveillance/keylogger-grade exfiltrator with attacker-benefit (all captured data flows to the author's endpoint).