MAL-2026-6086 Malicious code in ai-chat-helper (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-6086 is a malicious package: ai-chat-helper (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-2026-6086/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6086/index.md)
- Package
- ai-chat-helper
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-6086?
MAL-2026-6086 is a malicious package in ai-chat-helper, published on 17 Jun 2026.
Official description
collect.js performs system reconnaissance and exfiltration to a hardcoded attacker-controlled host. The script imports child_process, os, fs, http, and https; reads os.hostname(), os.homedir(), and inspects local filesystem paths via fs.existsSync; and POSTs the collected data to http://aab.sportsontheweb.net (line 13/line 366). The destination is an unrelated third-party domain over cleartext HTTP, with no relationship to any documented chat-helper functionality. This is the canonical credential/host-info beacon shape: child_process for command execution, os for host identity, fs for local file enumeration, and a hardcoded HTTP POST to an attacker domain.
What should I do about MAL-2026-6086?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.