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Malicious MAL-2026-13733

newtun

npm package · versions 1.0.20, 1.0.14, 1.0.18, 1.0.25, 1.0.12, 1.0.26, 1.0.21, 1.0.1, 1.0.13, 1.0.8, 1.0.27, 1.0.16, 1.0.24, 1.0.11, 1.0.17, 1.0.23, 1.0.19, 1.0.2, 1.0.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.15, 1.0.22

Reported Aug 11, 2026 · Updated Aug 11, 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 (adc90e76cf26bdb3145704cfb477f3a5215670556d03ff2959dde595a8bb0598)
The newtun CLI opens a plaintext WebSocket to the hardcoded server pull.7ii.win:7999 and hands the remote peer complete control of the installer's host. On TERM_OPEN messages the client calls pty.spawn(shell,...) and pipes server-supplied bytes (base64-decoded) directly into term.write(), giving the remote server an interactive PTY shell as the process user. SCRIPT_LIST/POLICY_SCRIPTS messages pass server-controlled string content to child_process.exec() and return stdout/stderr/exit code back over the same socket. FILE_REQUEST messages dispatch fs.readdirSync / readFileSync / writeFileSync / unlinkSync / rmSync / renameSync / mkdirSync against server-supplied paths, with file contents shipped back base64-encoded (up to 10MB per read) — allowing the operator to exfiltrate ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, and other installer secrets and to plant or delete files anywhere the process user can write. Every 5 seconds the client also sends MONITOR frames carrying hostname, OS type/release, arch, Node version, CPU/memory/load, uptime, and /proc/net/dev RX/TX rates; the initial authenticate frame carries os.hostname(), os.type/release/arch, and process.version. An UPGRADE control message causes the client to run `npm update -g newtun` and relaunch, letting the remote server swap the globally installed binary for any future published version without user interaction. The transport is unauthenticated plain ws:// so any on-path party can also drive these primitives.