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            "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
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        "modified_time": "2026-08-07T16:30:20Z",
        "sha256": "f3d9de53c9b5916edf45f9055ecdb2fbdd0752cfe7779f37c7d294a16788faf8",
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  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (f3d9de53c9b5916edf45f9055ecdb2fbdd0752cfe7779f37c7d294a16788faf8)\nThe package is published as `hardhat-cap` but its README, LICENSE, index.d.ts, and lib/proto.js / lib/tools.js are a verbatim copy of the pino logger, with author metadata pointing at jsonspack.com. index.js unconditionally does `const config = require(\u0027./lib/config\u0027);`, and lib/config.js is a ~4 MB single-line obfuscator.io-transformed module (rotated string array of ~23,931 entries, dual decoders, RC4+base64 string decoding, control-flow flattening) whose top-level IIFE self-invokes at load time. Requiring the package executes this opaque payload on the installer\u0027s host at import time; the surrounding pino code is unrelated cover. A logger has no need for a multi-megabyte obfuscated self-decoding blob, and the name/contents mismatch (Hardhat-themed name, pino source, obfuscated third module) is consistent with a typosquat lure that drops arbitrary code execution into consumers on `require`.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2026-13616",
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  "published": "2026-08-07T16:30:20Z",
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  "summary": "Malicious code in hardhat-cap (npm)"
}