diff --git a/benchmark/util/type-check.js b/benchmark/util/type-check.js
index e1d1ac553fedcf..d9ba7bc209de07 100644
--- a/benchmark/util/type-check.js
+++ b/benchmark/util/type-check.js
@@ -38,7 +38,8 @@ function main({ type, argument, version, n }) {
   // For testing, if supplied with an empty type, default to ArrayBufferView.
   type = type || 'ArrayBufferView';
 
-  const util = process.binding('util');
+  const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
+  const util = internalBinding('util');
   const types = require('internal/util/types');
 
   const func = { native: util, js: types }[version][`is${type}`];
diff --git a/lib/console.js b/lib/console.js
index a5b2265f58ff13..30a9a0e7331062 100644
--- a/lib/console.js
+++ b/lib/console.js
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ const {
     ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE,
   },
 } = require('internal/errors');
-const { previewEntries } = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
+const { previewEntries } = internalBinding('util');
 const { Buffer: { isBuffer } } = require('buffer');
 const util = require('util');
 const {
diff --git a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
index de9fd21e77effe..8f05c1a4ce1b53 100644
--- a/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
+++ b/lib/internal/bootstrap/node.js
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@
       // TODO(addaleax): Turn into a full runtime deprecation.
       const { pendingDeprecation } = process.binding('config');
       const { deprecate } = NativeModule.require('internal/util');
-      const utilBinding = process.binding('util');
+      const utilBinding = internalBinding('util');
       const types = internalBinding('types');
       for (const name of [
         'isArrayBuffer', 'isArrayBufferView', 'isAsyncFunction',
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@
         'contextify',
         'tcp_wrap',
         'tls_wrap',
+        'util',
         'async_wrap']);
     process.binding = function binding(name) {
       return internalBindingWhitelist.has(name) ?
diff --git a/lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js b/lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js
index 1e93791237c92f..39f9766d3e595d 100644
--- a/lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js
+++ b/lib/internal/modules/cjs/loader.js
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-const { NativeModule } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
+const { internalBinding, NativeModule } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const util = require('util');
 const vm = require('vm');
 const assert = require('assert').ok;
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const {
   internalModuleReadJSON,
   internalModuleStat
 } = process.binding('fs');
-const { safeGetenv } = process.binding('util');
+const { safeGetenv } = internalBinding('util');
 const {
   makeRequireFunction,
   requireDepth,
diff --git a/lib/internal/process/promises.js b/lib/internal/process/promises.js
index f54f34b9ae92f4..0ae81820dbed9a 100644
--- a/lib/internal/process/promises.js
+++ b/lib/internal/process/promises.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 'use strict';
 
-const { safeToString } = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
+const { safeToString } = internalBinding('util');
 
 const maybeUnhandledPromises = new WeakMap();
 const pendingUnhandledRejections = [];
diff --git a/lib/internal/util.js b/lib/internal/util.js
index 40afd9207e70f4..43b99740683b39 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util.js
@@ -6,15 +6,14 @@ const {
   ERR_UNKNOWN_SIGNAL
 } = require('internal/errors').codes;
 const { signals } = process.binding('constants').os;
-
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const {
   getHiddenValue,
   setHiddenValue,
   arrow_message_private_symbol: kArrowMessagePrivateSymbolIndex,
   decorated_private_symbol: kDecoratedPrivateSymbolIndex
-} = process.binding('util');
+} = internalBinding('util');
 
-const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const { errmap } = internalBinding('uv');
 
 const noCrypto = !process.versions.openssl;
diff --git a/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js b/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
index bcbe12181bfbfc..1cef5533bc1195 100644
--- a/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
+++ b/lib/internal/util/comparisons.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const {
   propertyFilter: {
     ONLY_ENUMERABLE
   }
-} = process.binding('util');
+} = internalBinding('util');
 
 const ReflectApply = Reflect.apply;
 
diff --git a/lib/os.js b/lib/os.js
index ace39c8e120397..9a05201ea4459c 100644
--- a/lib/os.js
+++ b/lib/os.js
@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
 
 'use strict';
 
-const { pushValToArrayMax, safeGetenv } = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
+const { pushValToArrayMax, safeGetenv } = internalBinding('util');
 const constants = process.binding('constants').os;
 const { deprecate } = require('internal/util');
 const isWindows = process.platform === 'win32';
diff --git a/lib/repl.js b/lib/repl.js
index 46f81a02f0c5d5..3f3d33175c57f2 100644
--- a/lib/repl.js
+++ b/lib/repl.js
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/deps/acorn/dist/acorn');
 const internalUtil = require('internal/util');
 const util = require('util');
-const utilBinding = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const { inherits } = util;
 const Stream = require('stream');
 const vm = require('vm');
@@ -78,8 +78,10 @@ const {
   propertyFilter: {
     ALL_PROPERTIES,
     SKIP_SYMBOLS
-  }
-} = process.binding('util');
+  },
+  startSigintWatchdog,
+  stopSigintWatchdog
+} = internalBinding('util');
 
 // Lazy-loaded.
 let processTopLevelAwait;
@@ -313,7 +315,7 @@ function REPLServer(prompt,
       if (self.breakEvalOnSigint) {
         // Start the SIGINT watchdog before entering raw mode so that a very
         // quick Ctrl+C doesn't lead to aborting the process completely.
-        if (!utilBinding.startSigintWatchdog())
+        if (!startSigintWatchdog())
           throw new ERR_CANNOT_WATCH_SIGINT();
         previouslyInRawMode = self._setRawMode(false);
       }
@@ -337,7 +339,7 @@ function REPLServer(prompt,
 
             // Returns true if there were pending SIGINTs *after* the script
             // has terminated without being interrupted itself.
-            if (utilBinding.stopSigintWatchdog()) {
+            if (stopSigintWatchdog()) {
               self.emit('SIGINT');
             }
           }
diff --git a/lib/stream.js b/lib/stream.js
index 7c235108c07256..860c875bec01a1 100644
--- a/lib/stream.js
+++ b/lib/stream.js
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ try {
   } else {
     // This throws for Node < 4.2.0 because there's no util binding and
     // returns undefined for Node < 7.4.0.
-    Stream._isUint8Array = process.binding('util').isUint8Array;
+    const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
+    Stream._isUint8Array = internalBinding('util').isUint8Array;
   }
 } catch (e) {
 }
diff --git a/lib/util.js b/lib/util.js
index e8fb41a2198a99..f0b7285fe01035 100644
--- a/lib/util.js
+++ b/lib/util.js
@@ -31,15 +31,15 @@ const { validateNumber } = require('internal/validators');
 const { TextDecoder, TextEncoder } = require('internal/encoding');
 const { isBuffer } = require('buffer').Buffer;
 
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const {
   getPromiseDetails,
   getProxyDetails,
   kPending,
   kRejected,
   previewEntries
-} = process.binding('util');
+} = internalBinding('util');
 
-const { internalBinding } = require('internal/bootstrap/loaders');
 const types = internalBinding('types');
 Object.assign(types, require('internal/util/types'));
 const {
diff --git a/src/node_util.cc b/src/node_util.cc
index 5adecf4d9753c3..8f261e8989de39 100644
--- a/src/node_util.cc
+++ b/src/node_util.cc
@@ -234,4 +234,4 @@ void Initialize(Local<Object> target,
 }  // namespace util
 }  // namespace node
 
-NODE_BUILTIN_MODULE_CONTEXT_AWARE(util, node::util::Initialize)
+NODE_MODULE_CONTEXT_AWARE_INTERNAL(util, node::util::Initialize)
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-internal-module-wrap.js b/test/parallel/test-internal-module-wrap.js
index a1461e34b0dcb1..ee0b722d450103 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-internal-module-wrap.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-internal-module-wrap.js
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ const assert = require('assert');
 
 const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
 const { ModuleWrap } = internalBinding('module_wrap');
-const { getPromiseDetails, isPromise } = process.binding('util');
+const { getPromiseDetails, isPromise } = internalBinding('util');
 const setTimeoutAsync = require('util').promisify(setTimeout);
 
 const foo = new ModuleWrap('export * from "bar"; 6;', 'foo');
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-internal-util-decorate-error-stack.js b/test/parallel/test-internal-util-decorate-error-stack.js
index 5694d746c667f4..40fbf1d48caf20 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-internal-util-decorate-error-stack.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-internal-util-decorate-error-stack.js
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ require('../common');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const internalUtil = require('internal/util');
-const binding = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
+const binding = internalBinding('util');
 const spawnSync = require('child_process').spawnSync;
 
 const kArrowMessagePrivateSymbolIndex = binding.arrow_message_private_symbol;
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-util-inspect-proxy.js b/test/parallel/test-util-inspect-proxy.js
index d7fb28ddc77282..b3438a625240a2 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-util-inspect-proxy.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-util-inspect-proxy.js
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
+// Flags: --expose-internals
 'use strict';
 
 require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const util = require('util');
-const processUtil = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
+const processUtil = internalBinding('util');
 const opts = { showProxy: true };
 
 const target = {};
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-util-inspect.js b/test/parallel/test-util-inspect.js
index 8e78430c01204d..b5ccdf019a5226 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-util-inspect.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-util-inspect.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// Flags: --expose-internals
 // Copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors.
 //
 // Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
@@ -22,10 +23,11 @@
 'use strict';
 const common = require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
 const JSStream = process.binding('js_stream').JSStream;
 const util = require('util');
 const vm = require('vm');
-const { previewEntries } = process.binding('util');
+const { previewEntries } = internalBinding('util');
 const { inspect } = util;
 
 assert.strictEqual(util.inspect(1), '1');
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-util-internal.js b/test/parallel/test-util-internal.js
index ac7cf12229487a..4b78cefc6efe60 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-util-internal.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-util-internal.js
@@ -4,13 +4,14 @@
 require('../common');
 const assert = require('assert');
 const fixtures = require('../common/fixtures');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
 
 const {
   getHiddenValue,
   setHiddenValue,
   arrow_message_private_symbol: kArrowMessagePrivateSymbolIndex,
   safeGetenv
-} = process.binding('util');
+} = internalBinding('util');
 
 for (const oneEnv in process.env) {
   assert.strictEqual(
diff --git a/test/parallel/test-util-sigint-watchdog.js b/test/parallel/test-util-sigint-watchdog.js
index 16bc6d37651710..7ac1261eabab40 100644
--- a/test/parallel/test-util-sigint-watchdog.js
+++ b/test/parallel/test-util-sigint-watchdog.js
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// Flags: --expose-internals
 'use strict';
 const common = require('../common');
 if (common.isWindows) {
@@ -6,7 +7,8 @@ if (common.isWindows) {
 }
 
 const assert = require('assert');
-const binding = process.binding('util');
+const { internalBinding } = require('internal/test/binding');
+const binding = internalBinding('util');
 
 [(next) => {
   // Test with no signal observed.