# MAL-2026-12494: Malicious code in ventrix-kit (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `ventrix-kit` (npm)
- **Published:** 5 Aug 2026

## What is MAL-2026-12494?

MAL-2026-12494 is a malicious package in ventrix-kit, published on 5 Aug 2026. 

### Official description

ventrix-kit@1.5.2 ships a loader that, when the package's default `getPlugin` export is invoked, performs an HTTP request to the hardcoded endpoint http://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/116 and passes the response's `credits` field to the JavaScript `Function` constructor, executing the returned code with `require`, `module`, `exports`, `process`, `Buffer`, and other Node globals in scope. The destination is a bare IP on a non-standard port with no pinning, signing, or integrity verification; the executed content is fully attacker-controlled and mutable server-side. The package's metadata and identifiers frame the loader as a CDN icon fetcher (`iconDomain`, `path = "/icons/"`, a `bearrtoken: "logo"` header, a `font-awesome`-shaped path, and an unused `setDefaultModule` referencing cdnjs/cloudflare/fastly), and the README advertises the package as a lightweight zero-dependency helper while `dependencies` include axios, express, better-sqlite3, @primno/dpapi, node-machine-id, and socket.io-client — a native-Windows-credential (DPAPI) plus persistent-socket stack inconsistent with an icon helper. Any code path that reaches `getPlugin` grants remote code execution on the consumer's host to the operator of 31.97.137.157.

## What should I do about MAL-2026-12494?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2026-12494 is a malicious package: ventrix-kit (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12494/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12494/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12494

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