Spectra Assure

failIncident: Malware

Scanned:

graphalgo

removed

malicious

Research

A directed and undirected multi-graph library

License: Permissive (MIT)

Published:

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

1 suspicious application behaviors

Malware

4 supply chain attack artifacts

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

malware

Reported By: ReversingLabs (Researcher)

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malware

Reported By: Community (Snyk)

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malware

Reported By: Community (NPM)

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malware

Reported By: Community (GitHub Advisory)

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removal

Reported By: Community

malware

Reported By: Community (OpenSSF)

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

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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

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community, it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of being the first to try out a new project lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in npm community

2 packages

found in

Top 100

6 packages

found in

Top 1k

99 packages

found in

Top 10k

4.51M packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

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.

Problem

Software developers use programming and design knowledge to build reusable software components. Software components are the basic building blocks for modern applications. Software consumed by an enterprise consists of hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of open source components. Software developers publish components they have authored to public repositories. While a new software project is a welcome addition to the open source community. it is not always prudent to indiscriminately use the latest components when building a commercial application. Irrespective of the software quality, the danger of using components that are rarely used to build applications lies in the fact that the software component may contain novel, currently undetected malicious code. Therefore, it is prudent to review software component behaviors and even try out software component in a sandbox, an environment meant for testing untrusted code.

Prevalence in npm community

1 packages

found in

Top 100

2 packages

found in

Top 1k

66 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.88M packages

in community

Next steps

Check the software component behaviors for anomalies.

Consider exploratory software component testing within a sandbox environment.

Consider replacing the software component with a more widely used alternative.

Avoid using this software package until it is vetted as safe.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. Obfuscation is a process of mangling the software code legibility, and it can be applied to URLs embedded in a software package. Obfuscation can interfere with the accuracy of security and software quality assessment solutions. For this reason, obfuscation is a technique commonly used by malicious actors as a means of bypassing security solutions and avoiding detection. While presence of URL obfuscation does not imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. URLs have their own encoding type called url-encoding, which is the preferred way of encoding URLs used on the web.

Prevalence in npm community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

2 packages

found in

Top 1k

25 packages

found in

Top 10k

3.63k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1027 - Obfuscated Files or Information.

Consider encoding all embedded URL data with url-encoded format.

graphalgo

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

IMPORTANT: This package had 7 malicious incidents in versions published within 2 years prior to the latestLatest version with malware incident detected: 10 months agoVersion: 2.2.11

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

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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

TH30106Detected presence of software components that have low popularity or number of downloads.hunting

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

TH30107Detected presence of software components that are rarely included by other public software packages.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps

TH17102Detected presence of files containing a Base-encoded URL.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in npm community

Next steps