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Incident detail

criticalnpm·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in npm-sandbox-ping-r9t2 (npm)

npm-sandbox-ping-r9t2

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for npm-sandbox-ping-r9t2 (npm).

Description

package.json declares a postinstall hook ("postinstall": "node run.js") that auto-executes on install. The package ships beacon scripts (beacon14.js, beacon_linux.js) that import child_process and http/os, run shell commands such as whoami, read process.env, process.platform, os.hostname(), os.platform(), and transmit the collected host/identity data via http.request GET/POST to a remote endpoint. The data flow (system enumeration -> outbound HTTP) and the install-time auto-execution together constitute a credential/host-info exfiltration beacon. Installer harm: any machine that runs npm install npm-sandbox-ping-r9t2 will silently execute these beacons and leak local identity/environment information to a remote endpoint.

Technical details

Affected versions

=1.0.0

Indicators

  • affected version=1.0.075%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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