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@hrmony/benefit-essenszuschuss@3.99.0

AI Security Review

scanned 9d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

Importing the package collects cloud credentials, environment variables, and Kubernetes secrets and sends them to an unrelated external host. No user opt-in or destination restriction is present.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.

Trigger

Importing the main entrypoint.

Impact

Cloud credentials and deployment secrets can be exfiltrated.

Mechanism

Top-level code calls AWS metadata endpoints, reads process environment and /var/run/secrets, then POSTs the results to the exporter.

Attack narrative

The declared main entrypoint executes immediately on import. It requests AWS metadata, including role and instance credentials, gathers all environment variables, recursively reads Kubernetes secret files, and sends the gathered data to an external exporter. Errors are swallowed, reducing visible failures while retaining the exfiltration attempt.

AI rationale

This is active credential and secret exfiltration triggered by importing the package. The absence of an install hook does not mitigate the concrete import-time attack.

Evidence

index.js

Network endpoints2

hrnmn.dd.h4x.tv/save_instance_info_from_pkge_hrmony_benefit-essenszuschuss169.254.169.254

OSV advisory

OpenSSF/OSV

On module import, top-level code in this package harvests cloud and container secrets and posts them to a hardcoded attacker-controlled endpoint. It queries the AWS Instance Metadata Service (IMDSv2 token via PUT to /latest/api/token, then /iam/security-credentials/ and identity-credentials/ec2) to retrieve IAM role credentials, serializes the full process.env, and recursively reads /var/run/secrets/ to capture Kubernetes service-account tokens and mounted secret material. The collected data is POSTed as JSON to https://hrnmn.dd.h4x.tv/save_instance_info_from_pkge_hrmony_benefit-essenszuschuss. The package name mimics an internal @hrmony HR/benefits utility, consistent with a dependency-confusion payload targeting that scope; it also declares an unpinned dependency @hrmony/kit-5 (^1.0.0) that will be resolved from the public registry at install time. ## Source: ghsa-malware (004b1780ab8d59ff304d7ca15e6e82afe1d0fe65d7024e7fd2cc41534c0b5d28) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

@hrmony/benefit-essenszuschuss@3.99.0

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