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Malicious MAL-2026-14161

@sidp-kiosk/test-npm-snurkeburk-hackerone

npm package · versions 2.999.0, 1.999.0

Reported Aug 19, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 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 (69a832d2eb4042899a17a745bac70590844ba320f3e181580314687c664e5159)
The package's package.json declares a preinstall script that runs index.js automatically on `npm install`. index.js shells out via child_process.exec to collect the installer's hostname, current working directory, username, a package marker, and the machine's public IP (fetched via curl to ifconfig.me). The aggregated output is hex-encoded with xxd and split into DNS labels queried via nslookup against subdomains of snurkeburk.com, a DNS-tunnel exfiltration channel that bypasses egress HTTP filtering. Installing this package causes host identifiers and public IP to leave the machine to an attacker-controlled DNS namespace.