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Malicious MAL-2026-14531

analytics-v2

npm package · versions 4.0.0

Reported Aug 26, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 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 (a589041eddd586d6269526f6c6e67f6b645994a24a143af07e35d8e2f9ce0982)
On npm install, the package's preinstall hook executes index.js which harvests host and user identity data (os.hostname(), os.platform(), os.arch(), os.userInfo() including username/uid/gid/shell, homedir, cwd) and captures the output of the shell commands `whoami` and `id` via child_process. The collected data is serialized as JSON and POSTed to the hardcoded endpoint https://839wbtybgrvpgbqzd0l8po2ozf56tyhn.oastify.com/system-info, a Burp Collaborator (oastify.com) out-of-band interaction subdomain unrelated to any legitimate analytics functionality. The behavior fires automatically as part of the npm install lifecycle with no user interaction.