{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00011019","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in figlet-chalk-render (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-frpq-rj8q-hpr4"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for figlet-chalk-render, figlet-chalk-render. 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-920cdeee5d20733fb216963148fc8b08"],"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-920cdeee5d20733fb216963148fc8b08","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-frpq-rj8q-hpr4","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-frpq-rj8q-hpr4","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:53.199Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-920cdeee5d20733fb216963148fc8b08"],"technology":"figlet-chalk-render","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (992cf49b88be09149971d4ac18fe2a4b61d242186f553cb3283a26970b886d7f)\nThe package is advertised as a chalk+figlet wrapper but index.js contains a top-level IIFE that runs on require. On Windows hosts, it reconstructs the module names 'https', 'os', 'fs', 'path', and 'child_process' and the method name 'spawn' from char-code arrays, hex escapes, and string concatenation to hide the network and execution chain. It then decodes the hardcoded plain-HTTP URL http://104.234.65.75:700/setup.exe and the filename RuntimeBroker.exe (masquerading as a legitimate Windows binary), downloads the payload into the OS temp directory via https.get piped to createWriteStream, and spawns it detached with windowsHide: true and.unref(). Execution is gated to skip environments where CI, SANDBOX, GITHUB_ACTIONS, or TRAVIS are set, evading sandbox and CI analysis. The obfuscation, bare-IP plain-HTTP delivery, RuntimeBroker.exe masquerade, and CI-evasion gate are inconsistent with the package's stated purpose and match an install/require-time Windows dropper.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.2.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-920cdeee5d20733fb216963148fc8b08"],"technology":"figlet-chalk-render","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: amazon-inspector (992cf49b88be09149971d4ac18fe2a4b61d242186f553cb3283a26970b886d7f)\nThe package is advertised as a chalk+figlet wrapper but index.js contains a top-level IIFE that runs on require. On Windows hosts, it reconstructs the module names 'https', 'os', 'fs', 'path', and 'child_process' and the method name 'spawn' from char-code arrays, hex escapes, and string concatenation to hide the network and execution chain. It then decodes the hardcoded plain-HTTP URL http://104.234.65.75:700/setup.exe and the filename RuntimeBroker.exe (masquerading as a legitimate Windows binary), downloads the payload into the OS temp directory via https.get piped to createWriteStream, and spawns it detached with windowsHide: true and.unref(). Execution is gated to skip environments where CI, SANDBOX, GITHUB_ACTIONS, or TRAVIS are set, evading sandbox and CI analysis. The obfuscation, bare-IP plain-HTTP delivery, RuntimeBroker.exe masquerade, and CI-evasion gate are inconsistent with the package's stated purpose and match an install/require-time Windows dropper.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T23:18:22.424Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-30T06:31:43.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-28T18:31:12.000Z","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":"2026-10-31T23:13:53.199Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}