🛡️ MAL-2026-5907 — chai-solidity-testkit

Malicious code in chai-solidity-testkit (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

The package masquerades as a Web3/Solidity testing toolkit but its shipped source is an unrelated stream-pipeline library plus a hidden payload runner. The default export chaiPlugin (src/index.js) calls runChain, which spawns node src/utils/swap.js as a detached, unref'd child process. swap.js issues an HTTPS GET to https://jsonkeeper.com/b/CS0FU, takes the response's data.config string, and executes it via new Function.constructor('require', s) invoked with the real require — granting the remote operator full Node.js capabilities (filesystem, network, child_process, env) on the installer's machine. The remote endpoint is author-mutable (a public paste host), so the executed code can change at any time without a package update. The detach+unref pattern lets the payload outlive the calling process. The package name and description impersonate the chai/solidity testing namespace, and the only reason axios is declared as a dependency is to drive the remote fetch in swap.js.