chai-as-attestednpm
Malicious code in chai-as-attested (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
Package impersonates a pino-style logger (exports module.exports.pino, ships pino-like DEFAULT_LEVELS, keywords fast/logger/stream/json) but the exported middleware spawns a detached node lib/initializeCaller.js that fetches a JSON document from a hardcoded free file-hosting URL (https://amethyst-lorrin-26.tiiny.site/index.json) and executes the cookie field of the response via new Function.constructor('require', response)(require), granting the remote payload full Node require access. The endpoint URL and request headers are base64-encoded inside fake process.env-named constants and decoded at runtime with atob to evade scanners; the fetch is retried 5 times. Any consumer who imports the package and invokes the middleware (or runs the package's smoke script) executes attacker-controlled code on the host. The package name and pino-mimicking API surface are a lure — chai-as-attested has no relation to chai-as-promised or to pino.
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