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CRITICAL npm Malware

Malicious code in dayjscore (npm)

MAL-2026-10587

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Description


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Source: amazon-inspector (bd9b2226f2ebbeccf1bcafbec9c51e2b3f13e3a7712dfc22baa79fbb72393b8a)

The package's package.json declares scripts.postinstall = "node.init.js", causing.init.js to run automatically on npm install. The script harvests a hardcoded list of roughly 60 credential-shaped environment variables (including NPM_TOKEN, GITHUB_TOKEN, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID/AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, STRIPE_*, DB_PASSWORD, and other cloud/provider tokens), reads files under the installer's home directory (~/.npmrc, ~/.env*, ~/config.json, ~/credentials.json), and enumerates ~/.config/* for filenames containing token/cred/secret. It additionally collects host identifiers (os.hostname(), os.platform(), process.cwd(), process.pid, timestamp) and POSTs the resulting JSON via https.request to a hardcoded webhook.cool endpoint (tender-deer-80). The package name mimics the popular dayjs library.

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