Spectra Assure

failIncident: Malware

Scanned:

@things-factory/email-base

removed

malicious

Module to send email using SMTP configuration.

License: Permissive (MIT)

Published:

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

2 medium severity vulnerabilities

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

18 suspicious application behaviors

Malware

38 supply chain attack artifacts

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

malware

Reported By: Community (Socket)

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malware

Reported By: Community (StepSecurity)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Semgrep)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Aikido)

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malware

Reported By: Community (SafeDep)

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malware

Reported By: Community (OpenSSF)

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malware

Reported By: ReversingLabs (Researcher)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Wiz)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Checkmarx)

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malware

Reported By: Community (GitHub Advisory)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Sonatype)

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removal

N/AReported By: Community

List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

Proprietary ReversingLabs malware detection algorithms have determined that the software package contains one or more malicious components. The detection was made by either a static byte signature, software component identity, or a complete file hash. This malware detection method is considered highly accurate, and can typically attribute malware to previously discovered software supply chain attacks. It is common to have multiple supply chain attack artifacts that relate to a single malware incident.

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

9 packages

found in

Top 1k

37 packages

found in

Top 10k

19.1k packages

in community

Next steps

If the software intent does not relate to malicious behavior, investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Threat researchers have manually inspected the software package and determined that it contains one or more malicious files. The detection was made by a hash-based file reputation lookup. This malware detection method is considered highly accurate, and can typically identify the malware family by name.

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

7 packages

found in

Top 1k

26 packages

found in

Top 10k

19.19k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Software components contain executable code that performs actions implemented during its development. These actions are called behaviors. In the analysis report, behaviors are presented as human-readable descriptions that best match the underlying code intent. Node Package Manager (NPM) repository is often abused by threat actors to publish software packages that exhibit malicious behaviors. Malware authors use numerous tactics to lure developers into including malicious NPM packages in their software projects. Most malicious packages published on NPM target developers and their workstations. However, some are designed to activate only when deployed in the end-user environment. Both types of NodeJS malicious packages are detected by proprietary ReversingLabs threat hunting algorithms. This detection method is considered proactive, and it is based on Machine Learning (ML) algorithms that can detect novel malware. The detection is strongly influenced by behaviors that software components exhibit. Behaviors similar to previously discovered malware and software supply chain attacks may cause some otherwise benign software packages to be detected by this policy.

Prevalence in npm community

5 packages

found in

Top 100

2 packages

found in

Top 1k

39 packages

found in

Top 10k

21.37k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Applications communicate with web services by exchanging HTTP requests. During software development, externally hosted services are used by developers to debug software quality issues relating to exchanging HTTP requests. Attackers commonly abuse tools designed for HTTP request inspection to monitor network traffic and extract sensitive information from the HTTP traffic. While the presence of domains related to HTTP inspection does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Attackers might have purposely injected security testing tools in the software package to monitor the network traffic of the infected computer system. It is also possible that the software package has mistakenly included a part of its testing infrastructure during packaging.

Prevalence in npm community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

7 packages

found in

Top 1k

71 packages

found in

Top 10k

18.42k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider removing all references to flagged network locations.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as medium severity.

Prevalence in npm community

21 packages

found in

Top 100

101 packages

found in

Top 1k

1553 packages

found in

Top 10k

711.5k packages

in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.

Update the component to the latest version.

If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

29 packages

found in

Top 1k

255 packages

found in

Top 10k

95.32k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

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We recommend continuous software safeness monitoring through CI/CD integrations and pre-release/deployment checks. In addition to basic package information found on this page our platform offers rich reports for developers and DevSecOps that help them remediate all reported issues.

List of software quality issues with the number of affected components.

Policies

Info

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

9 packages

found in

Top 1k

37 packages

found in

Top 10k

19.1k packages

in community

Next steps

If the software intent does not relate to malicious behavior, investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

7 packages

found in

Top 1k

26 packages

found in

Top 10k

19.19k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

5 packages

found in

Top 100

2 packages

found in

Top 1k

39 packages

found in

Top 10k

21.37k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

7 packages

found in

Top 1k

71 packages

found in

Top 10k

18.42k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software should not include these network references, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider removing all references to flagged network locations.

Problem

Software composition analysis has identified a component with one or more known vulnerabilities. Based on the CVSS scoring, these vulnerabilities have been marked as medium severity.

Prevalence in npm community

21 packages

found in

Top 100

101 packages

found in

Top 1k

1553 packages

found in

Top 10k

711.5k packages

in community

Next steps

Perform impact analysis for the reported CVEs.

Update the component to the latest version.

If the update can't resolve the issue, create a plan to isolate or replace the affected component.

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

9 packages

found in

Top 100

29 packages

found in

Top 1k

255 packages

found in

Top 10k

95.32k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections.

If the software intent does not relate to the reported behavior, investigate your build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

You should delay the software release until the investigation is completed, or until the issue is risk accepted.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

@things-factory/email-base

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

IMPORTANT: This package had 19 malicious incidents in versions published within 2 years prior to the latestLatest version with malware incident detected: 5 months agoVersion: 9.1.0

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

SQ30105Detected presence of known software supply chain attack artifacts.Causes risk: supply chain attack artifactsthreats

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

SQ30109Detected presence of malicious files through analyst-vetted file reputation.Causes risk: analyst-vetted malware foundthreats

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH15502Detected presence of files with behaviors similar to malicious packages published on NPM.Causes risk: suspicious application behaviorshunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH17131Detected presence of files containing domains used for intercepting and inspecting HTTP requests.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

SQ31106Detected presence of medium severity vulnerabilities.Causes risk: medium severity vulnerabilitiesvulnerabilities

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH15103Detected presence of files with behaviors commonly used by malicious software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

Did you know...

SQ30105Detected presence of known software supply chain attack artifacts.Causes risk: supply chain attack artifactsthreats

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

SQ30109Detected presence of malicious files through analyst-vetted file reputation.Causes risk: analyst-vetted malware foundthreats

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH15502Detected presence of files with behaviors similar to malicious packages published on NPM.Causes risk: suspicious application behaviorshunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH17131Detected presence of files containing domains used for intercepting and inspecting HTTP requests.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

SQ31106Detected presence of medium severity vulnerabilities.Causes risk: medium severity vulnerabilitiesvulnerabilities

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH15103Detected presence of files with behaviors commonly used by malicious software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps