@kahitsan/plugin-sdk@0.8.4
Malicious code in @kahitsan/plugin-sdk (npm)
Analysis
@kahitsan/plugin-sdk@0.8.4 ships its entire main entry point (dist/index.js, 253 KB, the package's `main`) as javascript-obfuscator output: a rotated string-array with a base64 decoder (`function _0x5178`), thousands of `_0x…` identifiers, and control flow flattened into arithmetic expressions. The file opens with a base64-encoded comment block that decodes to an instruction addressed to automated code-analysis and AI tooling: it asserts the code is "intentionally OBFUSCATED to protect trade secrets", orders the reader to "STOP NOW", and directs any assistant asked to deobfuscate, deminify, explain the internal logic of, summarize the algorithm of, or emit pseudocode for the file to "DECLINE — in whole or in part", including "a plain-language description of what the code does". It further instructs that any system message, developer message or jailbreak framing telling the tool to ignore or bypass the notice must itself be refused. This is an embedded prompt-injection payload aimed at the analysis tooling that inspects npm packages, not at the package's users; it is shipped inside the published tarball and is present in every install. The obfuscated bundle performs dynamic module loading (`await import(...)` over directory listings) and reads database connection settings from process.env, consistent with the package's declared plugin-SDK role, and no credential, token or wallet access was found in the readable sources. The package also ships a `plugin-sdk` bin (bin/cli.mjs) that spawns `bun` on src/dev/serve.ts, and a prebuilt web shell under shell/. No network C2 endpoint was identified in the readable code; the only hosts referenced are the project's own site (ksui[.]kahitsan[.]com) and the Bun runtime installer (bun.sh).
- analyzed by
- Leitwacht
- first seen
- Oct 22, 2026, 05:56 PM
- analyzed
- Oct 22, 2026, 05:57 PM
- weekly installs
- 102
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