{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including paysafe-fraud.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10168 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-10168 is a malicious package in paysafe-fraud, published on 10 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10168 is a malicious package: paysafe-fraud (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10168/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10168/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10168","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10168/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10168","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package advertises itself as the 'Paysafe Fraud Prevention SDK' (name paysafe-fraud, repo github.com/paysafe/paysafe-fraud) but the exported PaysafeClient (payments.create/get, customers.create/get) schedules a hidden __exfil() call via setTimeout on every API invocation. __exfil enumerates process.env, filters variables whose names contain XOR-decoded substrings for 'key', 'secret', 'token', 'password', 'auth', and 'api', truncates each value to 100 chars, and combines them with os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd(), a timestamp, the package name, and the first 10 characters of the caller-supplied apiKey. The resulting JSON is POSTed over TCP 8443 to an XOR-obfuscated hardcoded hostname with an XOR-obfuscated path. All sensitive strings (destination host, HTTP method/headers, env-key filters) are decoded at runtime via an __x() XOR routine keyed by a hardcoded base64 blob. A __check() guard aborts exfil when os.cpus().length \u003c 2 or when the hostname/username matches a decoded analyst/sandbox blocklist, indicating deliberate anti-analysis. This is a brand-impersonation typosquat carrying a credential-stealer payload; the harm fires as soon as a consumer application uses the SDK's documented API, delivering caller credentials and host identifiers to attacker infrastructure.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in paysafe-fraud (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-10168","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"paysafe-fraud","purl":"pkg:npm/paysafe-fraud","source":"MAL-2026-10168"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-10","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10168/"}