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Malicious MAL-2026-18062

sc-wizard

npm package · versions 99.9.1

Reported Oct 20, 2026 · Updated Oct 25, 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 (b6626c24ff3f61de611b5962b6a1b21a5f694dfb32059e31f956875dc9d1db02)
package.json declares the package's only dependency `ltidisafe` as a direct HTTPS tarball URL (`https://ltidi.storage.googleapis.com/depenconf/ltidisafe-4.0.1.tgz`) rather than a registry version range. On `npm install`, npm fetches that URL and installs whatever bytes it returns, executing any lifecycle scripts contained in the fetched tarball — unpinned, integrity-unchecked, and outside the npm registry's publish controls. The shipped `index.js` is an empty stub, so the manifest-declared off-registry URL is effectively the entire install-time payload. The dependency source is a mutable third-party storage bucket; whoever controls that URL controls code running on the installer's machine at install time. The high version number (`99.9.1`) relative to a short, generic name is consistent with a dependency-confusion lure intended to win resolution against an internal `sc-wizard` package.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (54691cc130e614ee031186f7e646c3e6076efad6105a6e9cad68f62aa736516b)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'sc-wizard' @ 99.9.1 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.