MAL-2026-10604

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MAL-2026-10604

Summary: Malicious code in @public-for-cdao/types (npm)

Details: The @public-for-cdao/types package is part of a dependency-confusion credential theft campaign. Its package.json declares a postinstall hook that runs node recon.js automatically during npm installation. The bundled recon.js is identical across six packages in the @public-for-cdao scope and has SHA-256 3dd1f7827fe311d17f442e0af0fab46f3f1a938bb3409838536795fb1aa0f740. The script collects CI tokens, GitLab access tokens, SSH and deployment keys, AWS credentials, database and Redis passwords, private keys, cryptocurrency mnemonics and seed phrases, Docker and npm credentials, and Slack and Discord tokens from environment variables. It also searches common project, application, root, and CI-runner locations for .env files and extracts lines containing KEY, SECRET, TOKEN, PASS, PRIVATE, or MNEMONIC. The package name, version, hostname, and collected secrets are POSTed to a fixed webhook.site endpoint and a Pipedream endpoint with TLS certificate verification disabled. Source: amazon-inspector (5b1047a119646917a21b103985170a9e993dee0d95a7b6f1f261ddea944b3bf5) The package's postinstall script (scripts.postinstall = 'node recon.js') runs automatically on `npm install` and performs an installer-side credential and reconnaissance harvest. recon.js collects os.hostname(), platform, arch, user, and cwd; enumerates approximately 40 CI/CD, cloud, and wallet-related environment variables including AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, NPM_TOKEN, GitLab tokens, database and Redis passwords, PRIVATE_KEY, MNEMONIC, and SEED_PHRASE; reads.env files at common paths via fs.readFileSync; and lists directories under /builds, /home/gitlab-runner/builds/, /tmp/, and /var/lib/gitlab-runner/. The collected JSON payload is POSTed via https.request to webhook.site (path /d6d18927-e513-4df7-b019-58bfc64fe0dd) and to enqoojbegdvxj.x.pipedream.net. The package name (@public-for-cdao/types), the pinned version 99.99.99, index.js exporting `{ name: '@cdao/types', version: '99.99.99' }` as a stub, and the in-file comment 'CryptoDAO Dependency Confusion Reconnaissance Payload' identify this as a targeted dependency-confusion attack against an internal '@cdao/types' package.

References: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@public-for-cdao/types/v/99.99.99, https://www.npmjs.com/package/@public-for-cdao/types/v/99.99.99, https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/issues/1373, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7c85-hxv2-75rg