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@tekmidian/pai

This report shows the evidence for @tekmidian/pai@1.0.9. 1 of 64 known versions is blocked or flagged. The newest version, 1.0.10, is allowed. See all versions.

OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory

imported 38m ago · by OpenSSF/OSV

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-18205 confirms this npm version as malicious.

Advisory

MAL-2026-18205

Source

OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV

Summary

Malicious code in @tekmidian/pai (npm)

Details

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.

References

OpenSSF/OSV advisory OpenSSF JSON ADVISORY

Independent LPM AI assessment

Manual Review

Independent AI assessment: manual_review. LPM AI review remains unresolved.

The scanner’s credential-redirection and reverse-shell claims are not demonstrated by the inspected excerpts, but the package’s agent integration and several flagged runtime paths remain unresolved. Manual review is appropriate because the available inspection does not support a reliable clean or malicious verdict.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.

Trigger

Unresolved; the reviewed source does not establish an attack trigger.

Impact

No confirmed attack impact; further source inspection is needed to resolve the remaining paths.

Mechanism

The examined credential-related code shows a user prompt for an environment token and a child process that removes the Anthropic API key. The available excerpts do not resolve the flagged network, agent configuration, and runtime behavior.

AI rationale

Evidence

package.jsondist/cli/index.mjsdist/render-CIHO1isL.mjsdist/hooks/capture-tool-output.mjsdist/routing-DTUYLL0N.mjs

Independent scan evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Manual Review at 62.0% confidence as Unknown with medium false-positive risk.

AI review observations

The manifest exposes CLI and daemon entry points and runs a build plus a worker command only in `prepublishOnly`.
The inspected Todoist setup prompts before using an environment token and sends the selected token to a project-listing operation.
The CLI contains a check that treats a non-default Anthropic base URL as a proxy for traffic that may pass outside Anthropic’s API.
A child-process helper removes the Anthropic API key from its inherited environment.
The package captures tool output locally, but this excerpt does not establish the full hook activation or data handling.

Evidence against

The inspected source does not establish that the CLI redirects credentials to a publisher-selected gateway or that the flagged rendering code opens a reverse shell.
The available excerpts do not resolve all agent integration targets, CLI behavior, or required runtime paths.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsEvalFilesystem

Source & flagged code

15 flagged

dist/launch-TW-H0yKd.mjsView file

7import { homedir } from "node:os"; L8: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L9:

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/launch-TW-H0yKd.mjsView on unpkg · L7

dist/run-D7ruva3n.mjsView file

5095else { L5096: const execArgs = { L5097: config,

High

Shell

Package source references shell execution.

dist/run-D7ruva3n.mjsView on unpkg · L5095

src/hooks/ts/lib/rules/eval.tsView file

7* it as written and with only the quote marks removed — every builtin block L8: * rule whose payload can sit inside `bash -c "..."` is marked, and anchors on L9: * command position so a message that merely mentions the payload stays

Medium

Unsafe Vm Context

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

src/hooks/ts/lib/rules/eval.tsView on unpkg · L7

dist/worker-config-Begafy6T.mjsView file

37import { homedir, loadavg } from "node:os"; L38: import { execFile, execFileSync, spawn } from "node:child_process"; L39: import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url"; L40: import { LineCounter, isMap, isScalar, parse, parseDocument } from "yaml"; L41: import { connect, createServer } from "node:net"; L42: import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; ... L110: } L111: if (ctx.dryRun) return void process.stdout.write(`would make ${name} the active provider\n`); L112: const { repointed } = useProvider(name); ... L160: /** Rewrite `<path key>: <home>/…` to `<path key>: ~/…` (quoted or bare); every other line is untouched. */ L161: function normalizePathsText(text, home = homedir()) { L162: const changes = [];

Low

Weak Crypto

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

dist/worker-config-Begafy6T.mjsView on unpkg · L37

dist/cli/index.mjsView file

•Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration. dist/cli/index.mjs: import { appendFileSync, chmodSync, closeSync, copyFileSync, cpSync, createReadStream, createWriteStream, existsSync, fstatSync, lstatSync, mkdirSync, openSync, readFileSync, readS... import { createInterface } from "node:readline"; for (const p of pages) writeFileSync(join(dir, p.name), p.markdown); writeFileSync(file, md + "\n"); writeFileSync(routerPidFile(), String(process.pid)); writeFileSync(routerHandoverFile(), String(process.pid)); writeFileSync(tmp, JSON.stringify(out), "utf-8"); * actual ~/.claude/projects/ (a live directory this very session writes to). */

High

Credential Redirect Persistence

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

dist/cli/index.mjsView on unpkg

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. mplate.md"); if (!existssync(templatepath)) { console.log(c.warn("skill template not found: " + templatepath)); console.log(c.dim(" skipping pai skill installation.")); return false; } const skilldir = join(homedir(), ".claude", "skills", "pai"); const skillfile = join(skilldir, "skill.md"); if (existssync(skillfile)) { const content = readfilesync(skillfile, "utf-8"); const isgenerated = content.includes("generated by pai setup"); if (isgenerated) console.log(c.dim(" found existing pai-generated skill.md.")); else { console.log(c.yellow(" found existing skill.md (not pai-generated).")); console.log(c.dim(" a backup will be created before overwriting

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

dist/cli/index.mjs

dist/render-CIHO1isL.mjsView file

6import { p as currentWorkerId, u as sessionTag } from "./scope-BJGF7BYA.mjs"; L7: import { A as waitOnCallLine, E as detachedLine, M as waitingLine, d as parseWorkerReport, j as waitOnResultLine, k as realWaitDeps, n as bashExitCode, p as renderReport, t as WAIT... L8: import { g as sessionOf, l as queuedPaneLine, u as queuedText } from "./capacity-BBOod_41.mjs"; ... L19: /** The worker this process runs inside, when it runs inside one. */ L20: function parentFromEnv(env = process.env) { L21: const id = currentWorkerId(env); ... L105: { L106: "id": "base64-decode-to-shell", L107: "severity": "block", ... L113: "match": [ L114: "bash -c \"base64 -d f | sh\"", L115: "echo aGVsbG8= | base64 -d | sh",

Critical

Reverse Shell

Source matches reverse-shell style process and socket wiring.

dist/render-CIHO1isL.mjsView on unpkg · L6

6Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.bin -> dist/cli/index.mjs -> dist/render-CIHO1isL.mjs L6: import { p as currentWorkerId, u as sessionTag } from "./scope-BJGF7BYA.mjs"; L7: import { A as waitOnCallLine, E as detachedLine, M as waitingLine, d as parseWorkerReport, j as waitOnResultLine, k as realWaitDeps, n as bashExitCode, p as renderReport, t as WAIT... L8: import { g as sessionOf, l as queuedPaneLine, u as queuedText } from "./capacity-BBOod_41.mjs"; ... L19: /** The worker this process runs inside, when it runs inside one. */ L20: function parentFromEnv(env = process.env) { L21: const id = currentWorkerId(env); ... L105: { L106: "id": "base64-decode-to-shell", L107: "severity": "block", ... L113: "match": [ L114: "bash -c \"base64 -d f | sh\"", L115: "echo aGVsbG8= | base64 -d | sh",

Critical

Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

dist/render-CIHO1isL.mjsView on unpkg · L6

dist/routing-DTUYLL0N.mjsView file

19import { homedir, networkInterfaces, tmpdir } from "node:os"; L20: import { execFile, execFileSync, spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L21: import { parse, stringify } from "yaml"; L22: import http from "node:http"; L23: import https from "node:https"; ... L86: push(chunk) { L87: const text = chunk.toString("utf8"); L88: if (!this.mode) this.mode = /^\s*(event:|data:|:)/.test(text) ? "sse" : "json"; L89: if (this.mode === "json") { ... L908: } L909: const slotsDir = () => join(paiHomeDir(), "state", "strata-slots"); L910: async function httpPost(url, body) {

Critical

Download Execute

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

dist/routing-DTUYLL0N.mjsView on unpkg · L19

dist/hooks/capture-tool-output.mjsView file

•Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path: value = value.replace(/^~(?=\/|$)/, homedir2()); if (process.env[key] === void 0) { process.env[key] = value; } } } break; } catch { } } } } loadenvfile(); function defaultadapterdir() { return resolve(process.env.claude_config_dir || resolve(homedir2(), ".claude")); } function suppressdeprecationnotices() { if (process.env.pai_quiet_notices === "1") return true; const idx = process.argv.indexof("--output-format"); return idx !== -1 && process.argv[idx + 1] === "json"; } function warnpaidirdeprecatedonce(message) { const g = globalthis; if (g.__paidirnoticeprinted || suppressdeprecationnotices()) return; g

High

External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

dist/hooks/capture-tool-output.mjsView on unpkg

tab-color-command.shView file

•path = tab-color-command.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 860 magicHex = [redacted]

Medium

Ships Build Helper

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

tab-color-command.shView on unpkg

dist/fallback-rlk91H5B.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 4

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

dist/fallback-rlk91H5B.mjs#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

Source & flagged code

15 flagged · loading source

dist/launch-TW-H0yKd.mjsView file

7import { homedir } from "node:os"; L8: import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process"; L9:

High

Child Process

Package source references child process execution.

dist/launch-TW-H0yKd.mjsView on unpkg · L7

dist/run-D7ruva3n.mjsView file

5095else { L5096: const execArgs = { L5097: config,

High

Shell

Package source references shell execution.

dist/run-D7ruva3n.mjsView on unpkg · L5095

src/hooks/ts/lib/rules/eval.tsView file

Findings

3 Critical8 High6 Medium7 Low

CriticalReverse Shelldist/render-CIHO1isL.mjs

CriticalDownload Executedist/routing-DTUYLL0N.mjs

CriticalTrigger Reachable Dangerous Capabilitydist/render-CIHO1isL.mjs

HighChild Processdist/launch-TW-H0yKd.mjs

HighShelldist/run-D7ruva3n.mjs

HighCredential Redirect Persistencedist/cli/index.mjs

HighExternal Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/hooks/capture-tool-output.mjs

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/cli/index.mjs

HighCross File Remote Execution Contextdist/cli/index.mjs

HighTrigger Reachable Persistencedist/cli/index.mjs

HighSemantic Analysis Limited

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @tekmidian/pai@1.0.9.

The versions list below shows the verdict for each recorded version.

Avoid installing @tekmidian/pai@1.0.9. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

Evidence last updated: 2026-10-23 01:03:08.946Z (UTC).

Source advisory published: 2026-10-23 00:56:39.000Z (UTC).

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Versions

64 known versions

1.0.10latestManual Review—AllowUnder ReviewOct 23, 2026, 12:22 AM 1.0.9shownMaliciousMalwareBlockPublishedOct 22, 2026, 11:45 PM 1.0.8Clean—AllowPublishedOct 22, 2026, 11:38 PM 1.0.7Manual Review—AllowUnder ReviewOct 22, 2026, 10:58 PM

OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory

Independent LPM AI assessment

Independent scan evidence

Source & flagged code

Source & flagged code

Findings

Affected versions and remediation

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