timed-assess@1.0.1

Summary

package.json declares postinstall: node apps, which loads apps/index.js. The script reads a bundled file, decrypts it with hardcoded DES key 'bf497c0b9cee' (CryptoJS.DES.decrypt), and pipes the resulting plaintext into the stdin of a detached spawn('node', [], { detached: true, stdio: ['pipe','ignore','ignore'] }) process. Identifiers such as readLogoIco and rsa_exec and log strings like 'ThetaSDK initialization error' are mislabeled and unrelated to the code's actual behavior of running arbitrary JavaScript. The detached stdio-ignore configuration suppresses output from the installer. This chain executes attacker-controlled JavaScript on the installer's host automatically on npm install.

Source: amazon-inspector (7d39931b57405563b5114ee92146f85eeeddbeb0e235dae9f483c2b30764f47e)