MAL-2026-17429 Malicious code in ai-workshop-radio-lambda (npm)

ai-workshop-radio-lambda is a dependency-confusion package: it takes a name that looks like an internal project, uses an inflated version (100.0.0) so it outranks private-registry versions, and runs node setup.js || true as a preinstall script on npm install. setup.js sends the hostname, username, working directory, OS, architecture, Node.js version and configured npm registry, with a per-package tracking token, in an HTTPS POST to https://s85r5k14qk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/hook. The npm account amel10 published ai-workshop-radio-lambda and 9 similar packages within two minutes on 2026-09-30, all with the same setup.js.

The package declares a preinstall lifecycle script (node setup.js) that runs automatically on npm install. setup.js collects installer-identifying data — os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd(), process.platform, process.arch, Node version, and the configured npm registry — and POSTs it together with a hardcoded static token to https://s85r5k14qk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/hook. The package's advertised functionality is a trivial add-two-numbers utility that has no legitimate need for host reconnaissance or outbound network activity at install time. The package name (ai-workshop-radio-lambda) and implausibly high version (100.0.0) are consistent with a dependency-confusion lure designed to win resolution against an internal package of the same name.