LWA-2026-11809 confirmed malware

chromatitle@1.0.0

Malicious code in chromatitle (npm)

T1059.007 · JavaScriptT1105 · Ingress Tool TransferT1071.001 · Web ProtocolsT1204.002 · Malicious File

Analysis

chromatitle@1.0.0, a terminal banner/color CLI, executes a hidden download-and-execute payload automatically when the module is imported. Its bundled src/utils/bootstrap.js is heavily obfuscated (encoded string array with a custom decoder) and imports child_process execFile, http/https get, and fs write/chmod/unlink/mkdir. On import it fetches a remote file from an obfuscated URL (with a query parameter), writes it to the OS temp directory, chmods it executable, and executes it via execFile. The remote host is encoded inside the obfuscated string array.

analyzed by
Leitwacht
first seen
Aug 31, 2026, 08:40 PM
analyzed
Aug 31, 2026, 08:41 PM

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