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Malicious MAL-2026-12193

sextant-relay-darwin-arm64

npm package · versions 0.0.1-rc1

Reported Aug 5, 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 (43407b6c2131e12ca9f2b18ee48505dbf7541e67aca1b94ad4fdc41e9fbca7c0)
The tarball contains a single darwin/arm64 Mach-O Go executable at bin/sextant-relay (~6 MB, stripped) and a minimal package.json with no scripts, main, or bin entry — the package is designed to be selected as a platform-specific optional dependency of a parent package and invoked from there. The binary belongs to project github.com/ddos798/claude_control (referenced from package.json's license field) and its symbol table imports github.com/coder/websocket alongside a handleAgent routine and pseudo-terminal primitives (pty allocation, reader/writer state paired with WebSocket connection state). Together these produce a WebSocket-to-PTY relay: bytes arriving from a remote WebSocket peer are written into a local pty, and pty output is returned over the same socket, giving the operator of the WebSocket server interactive shell control on the host that runs the binary. The package name and description present the binary as a benign 'relay', which does not match its actual behavior. No install-time or import-time execution fires from this sub-package alone; the harm is realized when the parent package invokes the binary on a matching darwin/arm64 host.