OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12402 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's only shipped artifact is a 10 MB Linux x86_64 ELF Node addon set as `main` (tools.linux-x64-gnu.node), so it is loaded automatically on `require()`. Extracted strings from the binary contain the exact Chromium Cookies SQLite schema (`FROM cookies`, `DROP INDEX IF EXISTS cookies_unique_index`, `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX cookies_unique_index ON cookies(host_key, top_frame_site_key,...)`) and password-store log...
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OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in new-native-tools-linux-x64-gnu (npm)
Details
The package's only shipped artifact is a 10 MB Linux x86_64 ELF Node addon set as `main` (tools.linux-x64-gnu.node), so it is loaded automatically on `require()`. Extracted strings from the binary contain the exact Chromium Cookies SQLite schema (`FROM cookies`, `DROP INDEX IF EXISTS cookies_unique_index`, `CREATE UNIQUE INDEX cookies_unique_index ON cookies(host_key, top_frame_site_key,...)`) and password-store log lines (`Found login for`, `failed to read:`), consistent with reading Chromium/Chrome/Chromium-derivative Cookies and Login Data stores on the installer host. The same binary embeds a full outbound HTTPS stack (rustls, hyper/ureq) with proxy-environment support (`HTTPS_PROXY`, `HTTP_PROXY`, `ALL_PROXY`) and host-fingerprinting primitives (`gethostname`, `getifaddrs`, `/etc/lsb-release`, `/dev/disk/by-id/`, CPU info, `network_adapters`), plus ZIP + zstd packaging routines suitable for bundling collected data before upload. The exfiltration destination is not present as a plain string and is reconstructed at runtime. Package name mimics the `@napi-rs/*` / `@next/swc-*` platform-binary convention; the README states only "the x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu binary for new-native-tools" and does not disclose any browser-data access or network activity. The version tag `3.1.40-browser-release-151-380-1785161758` includes a unix-epoch-like suffix consistent with automated mass-publication.
Decision reason
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV confirms new-native-tools-linux-x64-gnu@3.1.41-origin-chrom-468-delete-windows-32-bit-changelog-fix-408-1785838091 as malicious (MAL-2026-12402): Malicious code in new-native-tools-linux-x64-gnu (npm)