telemetry-axios @0.1.6

Summary

The package's Control.plugin() entry point calls PluginOptions(), which fetches a binary payload from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThoSuperstarDev/axios-http/main/lib/env/axios-telemetry.json — a personal GitHub repository on a mutable main branch, unrelated to the declared publisher. The response bytes (URL extension is.json, but the content is a Windows PE) are written to %LOCALAPPDATA%/Temp/msedgewebview2.exe, impersonating the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime binary, and then executed via execFile with no hash or signature verification. The package name mimics the popular axios/telemetry ecosystem, and the dropper mechanism has no relation to the package's stated 'modular metrics' purpose. Any consumer that invokes the advertised.plugin() API downloads and runs attacker-controlled code on the host.

Source: amazon-inspector (0f21f282e7349c68d7ff17d0b5c452fb51c3bab106ffb6f56dc80f108c4b0800)