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Malicious MAL-2026-12810

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npm package · versions 1.0.1, 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 (6f7901c35765e01f25defe0c4d489b8f320340b45968e89b9dafe5821b7561fd)
The package's main entry ships a self-invoking browser payload that reads document.cookie, base64-encodes the value, and submits it via an auto-created hidden form POST to a hardcoded webhook.site endpoint (https://webhook.site/86b505ff-4280-459f-9b36-e765825c0ada). The package has no legitimate declared purpose consistent with this behavior; bundling this module into a web application causes visitor cookies to be sent to an attacker-controlled destination. The base64 wrapping around the JSON body is minor evasion to obscure the exfiltrated content in network logs.