{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including kmf-i18n.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17747 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-2026-17747 is a malicious package in kmf-i18n, published on 9 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17747 is a malicious package: kmf-i18n (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-2026-17747/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17747/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17747","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17747/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17747","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"kmf-i18n@100.100.100 is published with the version-number and behavior shape of a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon rather than an i18n library. The tarball ships a Linux x64 N-API binary at prebuilds/linux-x64/addon.node with no corresponding source, no binding.gyp, and no build step. package.json declares scripts.postinstall = \"node postinstall.js\", and postinstall.js require()s that prebuilt.node binary, so the native code is loaded automatically on npm install. The addon opens a raw TCP socket to the hardcoded bare IP 64.181.165.115 on port 80 and sends an HTTP/1.0 POST to /dc with body h=\u003cHOSTNAME\u003e\u0026p=\u003cnpm_package_name\u003e\u0026u=\u003cunused\u003e\u0026r=\u003cnpm_config_registry\u003e, reading those values from the installer's environment. The exfiltrated npm_config_registry value discloses internal/private npm registry URLs, which is the characteristic signal of dependency-confusion target reconnaissance. The addon exposes no i18n functionality consistent with the package's declared purpose; its only observable behavior is the install-time beacon. The main entry also require()s the same binary, so merely importing the package re-triggers the native load path.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'kmf-i18n' @ 100.100.102 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","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 kmf-i18n (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-17747","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":"kmf-i18n","purl":"pkg:npm/kmf-i18n","source":"MAL-2026-17747"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-09","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-2026-17747/"}