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Malicious MAL-2026-17527

tiny-focusgroup-helper

npm package · versions 1.0.0

Reported Oct 4, 2026 · Updated Oct 4, 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 (9c6d210f6c61d0ec49fac4bf487a2d71966b1f3dd59653d8a8fdf12e04f9b306)
tiny-focusgroup-helper@1.0.0 declares itself as a focus-group accessibility helper, but thunderboltRegistry.js runs an IIFE at require time that executes `whoami`, `uname -a`, `ifconfig`/`ip addr`, and reads `/etc/hosts` via child_process, and POSTs/GETs the output as query parameters to the hardcoded plaintext endpoint http://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/ef9ea0e191006f3cc6670720c99c26f3, along with a beacon containing node version, platform, and pid. The dxpoc.gt.tc host is a dynamic-DNS domain unrelated to any legitimate publisher. The package's exported surface (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, documentManagementRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry) mirrors internal Wix thunderbolt registry module names and the shipped manifest references static.parastorage.com, consistent with a dependency-confusion/module-impersonation lure targeting Wix build environments.