chai-test-mocksnpm
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chai-test-mocks is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5928) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 1.2.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in chai-test-mocks (npm)
What this malware does
chai-test-mocks impersonates the legitimate chai-jest-mocks package (replicated README, reused CircleCI/coveralls badges pointing at chai-jest-mocks) but overrides module.exports to a dropper rather than the documented plugin. lib/index.js exports chain = require('./matchers/beenTest') while the original module.exports = chaiJestMock is left commented out. When a consumer follows the documented usage chai.use(require('chai-test-mocks')), the exported genMock invokes connectNet in lib/matchers/beenTest.js, which calls spawn('node', [src, JSON.stringify(dopt)], { detached: true, stdio: ['ignore'] }) and parmas.unref() to launch lib/matchers/beenOptions.js as a detached, persistent child process. beenOptions.js performs an HTTPS GET to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/HIECD, extracts the Cookie field from the returned JSON, and executes it via new Function.constructor('require', result) invoked with the real require, giving the fetched code full Node module access on the installer's machine. Because jsonkeeper.com is mutable third-party JSON storage with no integrity check, the operator can swap arbitrary post-exploitation code at any time. The function also returns an Express-style (req,res,next)=>next() middleware to disguise the dropper as plumbing.
Malicious versions
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Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for chai-test-mocks (version 1.2.0).
If you installed it — respond
chai-test-mocks is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove chai-test-mocks, 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 chai-test-mocks 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks chai-test-mocks-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.