{"id":"MAL-2026-16385","summary":"Malicious code in tlxbnhd (npm)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (e415dbf226269704c2cd28b1783cf594f96880dd4688b26caf7f25a19e268237)\nThe tlxbnhd package ships obfuscated preinstall.js and postinstall.js lifecycle scripts that, on npm install, download two files from https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png (an anonymous image-hosting URL disguised with a.png extension), write them into the package directory as gldriver_pre_core.exe and gldriver_pre_asset.exe, and launch them using platform-specific commands (start on Windows, open on macOS, xdg-open/mspaint on Linux). After launch the scripts unlink the dropped files to remove traces. The URLs, filenames, and shell commands are hidden inside an obfuscator.io-style rotating string array with an index-shifting IIFE. The same dropper runs from both preinstall and postinstall, so it executes twice per install.\n","modified":"2026-09-22T15:31:47.724639363Z","published":"2026-09-22T14:52:21Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"import_time":"2026-09-22T15:18:38.079043655Z","modified_time":"2026-09-22T14:52:21Z","sha256":"e415dbf226269704c2cd28b1783cf594f96880dd4688b26caf7f25a19e268237","source":"amazon-inspector","versions":["0.0.1"],"id":"IN-MAL-2026-020291"}]},"references":[{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/tlxbnhd/v/0.0.1"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"tlxbnhd","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/tlxbnhd"},"versions":["0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"indicators":{"evidence_files":[{"tlsh":"51b1a59650f0289333a38af6a62fa0d2f36bc51932d6c983e41c69957f8d83dc5d2874","path":"scripts/preinstall.js","sha256":"7acf331117900179b483142f216fdcb22c671eb0b1971abd57f01bc036248a6e"},{"tlsh":"51b1a59650f0289333a38af6a62fa0d2f36bc51932d6c983e41c69957f8d83dc5d2874","path":"scripts/postinstall.js","sha256":"7acf331117900179b483142f216fdcb22c671eb0b1971abd57f01bc036248a6e"}],"package_integrity":[{"hashes":{"sha512_sri":"sha512-6lLS5TqE3UwOdU7spXWBoXtHr22PeDJ4Y/gWc8+yX1Q58a8d+9IHOmtNebzpo/QZ4gP2rlf5PCH8so3q+rIpfg==","sha1":"9318479b2218444e9cece69f098766301e5477e8"},"filename":"tlxbnhd-0.0.1.tgz"}]},"cwes":[{"name":"Embedded Malicious Code","cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."}],"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/tlxbnhd/MAL-2026-16385.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["inspector-research@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}