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Malicious MAL-2026-14238

gaarf-node

npm package · versions 1.0.0

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 (fc539c4e835f015b5f7b9e65ca33a720e44ee0191e3bbf422085949e5d3029b9)
The package's postinstall script runs automatically on npm install and collects host identifiers (os.hostname(), platform, arch, node version, package name, npm lifecycle event) and POSTs them as JSON to the hardcoded remote host ze0buq23.instances.poc.jchunt.top at path /gaarf-node. The package name impersonates Google's ads-api-report-fetcher (gaarf) project referenced in source.txt, while package.json self-labels as a `Security research canary`. The destination domain is unrelated to the impersonated Google project, and the outbound beacon fires with no user consent as a lifecycle side effect of installation.