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Incident detail

criticalnpm·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in npm-sandbox-research-c5d6 (npm)

npm-sandbox-research-c5d6

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for npm-sandbox-research-c5d6 (npm).

Description

The package declares a postinstall hook ("postinstall": "node run.js") that executes automatically on npm install. The shipped beacon scripts (beacon11.js, beacon_linux.js) load child_process, os, and http, read host identifiers via os.hostname() and os.platform(), and issue outbound HTTP GET/POST requests carrying that data. This is the install-time host-fingerprinting and exfiltration shape: lifecycle execution + system-info collection + outbound network in a single chain, with no legitimate library functionality justifying the behavior.

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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