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Malicious MAL-2026-12195

simple-date-formatter-new-3

npm package · versions 1.0.0

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 (eaef04a98dce874de04a92b580f4f919067a0e492d38dff69a57fc09db1cfe14)
The package's `postinstall` script in package.json runs a shell pipeline that collects host and container-runtime information (kernel version via `uname -r`, `/proc/1/cmdline`, `/proc/1/ns`, root filesystem listing, block device listing) and POSTs the output via `curl` to the hardcoded interact.sh-style callback `http://safjhdvsfwzhieemkdzbgr54r0yjhrmok.oast.fun/escinfo7`. The same pipeline attempts container-escape actions: creating a cgroup subtree under `/sys/fs/cgroup/esc7`, moving PID 0 into it, `mknod`ing a block device at `/tmp/x17`, and mounting the host root filesystem at `/tmp/hostroot`, with results reported back to the same external endpoint. The tarball also ships a `postinstall.js` that enumerates the installer's `~/.ssh` directory and POSTs the listing plus username/platform to the hardcoded IP `124.221.154.135:443/post`, with in-source comments describing the behavior as SSH-key C2 exfiltration. All of this runs automatically on `npm install` with no user consent. The package name and stated purpose ("date formatter") do not match any of the observed behavior.