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Malicious MAL-2026-14034

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npm package · versions 1.0.1, 1.0.13, 1.0.3, 1.0.8, 1.0.7, 1.0.5, 1.0.11, 1.0.12, 1.0.9, 1.0.4, 1.0.6, 1.0.10, 1.0.2, 1.0.0

Reported Aug 14, 2026 · Updated Aug 14, 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 (7c74ec5369dac32115a9f5f257f512fa0a48d2e914b1f18c5178992b0a1604f9)
package.json declares a postinstall script that automatically runs on npm install and fetches AWS ECS container task metadata via the ECS_CONTAINER_METADATA_URI_V4 endpoint (task ARN, container names, image names), then POSTs the collected data to a hardcoded ngrok tunnel at https://mourner-slot-explicit.ngrok-free.dev using curl. The postinstall also inspects the container image name for substrings matching known security research operators (twbray, packagehound, wiz, oss-dynamic) and labels the payload accordingly, indicating deliberate sandbox and analyst fingerprinting. The destination is an anonymous ngrok tunnel unrelated to any legitimate publisher infrastructure, and the collected data reveals installer-side CI/build/container environment details to a third party.