{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00008682","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in passwordcracker (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-jwr3-9ch5-2qw5"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for passwordcracker, passwordcracker, passwordcracker. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-aa0b65467d366a8aa93390630e49becd"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-aa0b65467d366a8aa93390630e49becd","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwr3-9ch5-2qw5","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-jwr3-9ch5-2qw5","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:56:27.401Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-aa0b65467d366a8aa93390630e49becd"],"technology":"passwordcracker","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"passwordcracker poses as a dependency-free Discord MFA library but pulls node-net-pool from the attacker's GitHub repo lunexindonesia/node-net-pool, and on load lib/cache.js runs `try{module'require'}catch(_){}` to execute it. On Windows, that index.js downloads a script from a limbomail.com attachment URL, saves it as a hidden winsvc.js under %APPDATA%, %LOCALAPPDATA% or %TEMP%, runs it via a hidden WinSvcHost.vbs, persists through HKCU Run/RunOnce, UserInitMprLogonScript and a Startup shortcut, and re-checks for updates every two hours. Amazon Inspector reported the same loader stub in discord-mfa-solver (MAL-2026-16100). The npm account kingsize published passwordcracker and passwordcrackv2 with identical code on 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-10.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["> 0"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-aa0b65467d366a8aa93390630e49becd"],"technology":"passwordcracker","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"passwordcracker poses as a dependency-free Discord MFA library but pulls node-net-pool from the attacker's GitHub repo lunexindonesia/node-net-pool, and on load lib/cache.js runs `try{module'require'}catch(_){}` to execute it. On Windows, that index.js downloads a script from a limbomail.com attachment URL, saves it as a hidden winsvc.js under %APPDATA%, %LOCALAPPDATA% or %TEMP%, runs it via a hidden WinSvcHost.vbs, persists through HKCU Run/RunOnce, UserInitMprLogonScript and a Startup shortcut, and re-checks for updates every two hours. Amazon Inspector reported the same loader stub in discord-mfa-solver (MAL-2026-16100). The npm account kingsize published passwordcracker and passwordcrackv2 with identical code on 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-10.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.1.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-aa0b65467d366a8aa93390630e49becd"],"technology":"passwordcracker","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"passwordcracker poses as a dependency-free Discord MFA library but pulls node-net-pool from the attacker's GitHub repo lunexindonesia/node-net-pool, and on load lib/cache.js runs `try{module'require'}catch(_){}` to execute it. On Windows, that index.js downloads a script from a limbomail.com attachment URL, saves it as a hidden winsvc.js under %APPDATA%, %LOCALAPPDATA% or %TEMP%, runs it via a hidden WinSvcHost.vbs, persists through HKCU Run/RunOnce, UserInitMprLogonScript and a Startup shortcut, and re-checks for updates every two hours. Amazon Inspector reported the same loader stub in discord-mfa-solver (MAL-2026-16100). The npm account kingsize published passwordcracker and passwordcrackv2 with identical code on 2026-10-09 and 2026-10-10.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:27.106Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-29T15:31:38.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-10-14T00:31:16.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:56:27.401Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}