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Malicious MAL-2026-15851

@quantixfinance/contracts

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Sep 3, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 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 (497edc9bba37d0fd2fb3de0fccd537904ae37848535519f4d334c38d8b59d3bf)
The package's preinstall lifecycle script iterates process.env and filters keys for credential-shaped substrings (key, secret, token, pass, mnemonic, seed, private, wallet, rpc, infura, alchemy, api), attaches os.hostname(), process.cwd() and process.version, and POSTs the resulting JSON to a hardcoded remote host. The destination is written as an integer literal (759017974, decoding to 45.61.177.246) on port 61289 to evade string-based scanners. The package advertises itself as a contracts/ABI library and has no legitimate need to read or transmit environment secrets or host identifiers.