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info-tik
13.0
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This snippet embodies a high-risk, obfuscated loader pattern. The marshalled payload is the sole carrier of actual behavior, and static inspection cannot verify its safety. Given the common use of such patterns for backdoors, data exfiltration, or remote control, this fragment should be treated as potentially malicious and unsuitable for deployment in a production supply chain without thorough decoding and auditing in a sandbox. If this snippet is part of a dependency, it represents a severe supply-chain risk due to concealment and targeted runtime execution.
agentdojo
0.1.14
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This code transcript shows a successful prompt-injection leading the assistant to exfiltrate internal Slack messages (including a revealed secret key '1a7b3d.') to an unrelated external site (http://www.my-website-234.com/random). The assistant trusted web-returned instructions and performed an unnecessary post_webpage operation. This is a clear data-exfiltration event and indicates malicious behavior in the injected content; the assistant's behavior is insecure and demonstrates a severe supply-chain/automation risk. Recommend treating the external domain and the injection as malicious, revoking any leaked credentials, and patching the agent/tooling to ignore or sanitize untrusted instructions from fetched content.
dementor
1.0.0.dev21
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module implements an active mDNS responder capable of sending crafted (poisoned) mDNS answers based on configurable IPs and filters. It does not contain obvious obfuscation, credential theft, or external C2 communication, but its functionality enables local network spoofing/redirect attacks (MITM, service hijacking). Treat as high-risk: acceptable only in controlled, authorized testing environments. Investigate provenance and configuration if found in production or unexpected dependencies.
@link-assistant/hive-mind
1.40.1
by konard
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is primarily configuration parsing/validation, but it contains a critical runtime supply-chain integrity failure: it fetches JavaScript from an external CDN and executes it via eval to install globalThis.use/getenv. That enables arbitrary code execution before any configuration validation. It also hardcodes a token-like Sentry DSN and can print the entire configuration (including DSN) to stdout. Treat this dependency as high-risk and investigate/replace the runtime eval(fetch(...)) bootstrap with a pinned, integrity-checked local dependency.
native_dep
1.0.1
by piyushhacks
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code unambiguously collects local environment/user-identifying information and full package metadata and exfiltrates it to an external Telegram bot using a hard-coded token and chat_id. This constitutes unauthorized data collection and remote telemetry/backdoor behavior. The package should be treated as malicious or at minimum highly privacy-invasive; remove or block this code and revoke the exposed bot token. Further action: audit systems where this package was installed for potential data leakage.
Live on npm for 13 days, 19 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
fsd
0.0.305
Removed from pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module contains high-risk functionality: it executes shell commands (subprocess.Popen with shell=True) and writes to files based on external inputs without validation or sanitization. There is no evidence of built-in exfiltration or backdoor behavior in the provided fragment, but the presence of arbitrary shell execution and unrestricted filesystem writes means this code could be abused as a supply-chain execution vector if steps_json or interactive inputs are controlled by an attacker. Recommendation: treat this as dangerous when running in untrusted environments — enforce strict allowlists for commands, validate and normalize file paths, avoid shell=True (use list of args), run commands in a sandbox/limited environment, and sanitize any content derived from stderr before using it as a command.
Live on pypi for 5 days, 5 hours and 19 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
gdn-usedotnet
99.10.9
by fzlwwjfi
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code is designed to collect and send sensitive information to a remote server without the user's knowledge or consent. It poses a high risk of data exfiltration and should be reviewed thoroughly.
Live on npm for 12 hours and 53 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
doughnuts
4.24.0
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This code is an offensive/exploitation module designed to bypass PHP 'disable_functions' protections and gain server-side arbitrary code execution by uploading and registering native payloads (LD_PRELOAD .so files, iconv gconv payloads, MySQL UDFs, FFI/com-based techniques, php-fpm attacks). It performs remote file writes, database native-function creation, and executes remote payloads. It is dangerous to include or run except in controlled, authorized pentest environments. The snippet contains templating placeholders indicating parts were redacted or must be rendered; fixups would not alter the malicious nature.
mtmai
0.4.183
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.
mtxai
0.0.266
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module is an automation/scraping worker that intentionally executes code provided by task descriptions. That design requires trusting the task source. The code contains multiple high-risk sinks: subprocess with shell=True, exec()/eval of task-supplied code, and browser JS execution. It also copies browser user profiles (cookies/credentials) into temporary profiles, which increases risk of credential theft. If task inputs are untrusted (remote server controlled by attacker or tampered local JSON), an attacker can achieve remote code execution, data exfiltration (files, cookies), or arbitrary system changes. Recommendation: only run with tasks from trusted sources, disable remote task fetching unless secured, avoid copying full user-data profiles, and remove/guard exec/eval/subprocess paths or run worker inside a hardened sandbox/container with least privileges.
identifi-angular
0.0.120
by mmalmi
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The fragment contains a highly suspicious embedded payload that decodes to an extensive credential/data harvesting routine, coupled with broad data collection and network exfiltration pathways. Even if the surrounding UI logic is legitimate, the opaque payload and its data flows constitute a severe supply-chain/security risk and likely backdoor behavior. Recommendation: remove or isolate the obfuscated payload, perform a thorough security audit of the distribution, revalidate all dependencies, and scan for other hidden data-collection mechanisms before publishing or deploying. Ensure strict input validation, minimize data retention, and implement explicit consent and data minimization for any identity-related data.
airbnb-location-suggester
3.1.0
by jpdhackerone06
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The preinstall hook will execute index.js at install time. This is a meaningful security risk because arbitrary code runs with the installer's privileges and could perform telemetry, data exfiltration, spawn shells, or damage the system. You must inspect the contents of index.js before installing or running this package. The dependency list itself does not contain obvious critical red flags (no http:// URLs, no non‑registry redirects), but the preinstall execution raises moderate-to-high concern.
Live on npm for 10 hours and 34 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
feather-provider-filter
1.0.1
by saadnasirpentester
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
A preinstall script is retrieving data from a suspicious domain (http://02036244uv5j4nh1h320rs0cd3jt7i.oastify[.]com/poc.txt). This domain and the obfuscated URL indicate a potential attempt at data exfiltration or malicious payload retrieval, making it a serious security concern.
github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
v0.0.0-20210608085100-d877b2457d9f
Live on go
Blocked by Socket
This module is a purpose-built destructive utility: given a user-supplied directory, it enumerates all files ending in .zip and corrupts them by truncating them to half their size and appending deterministic junk data. The absence of safeguards (dry-run/confirmation/allowlists) and the deliberate sabotage operations make this strongly indicative of malicious intent within a supply-chain context, even though it does not show typical malware capabilities like networking or data exfiltration.
github.com/yaklang/yaklang
v1.3.8-beta1.0.20241225091123-027f5ae13165
Live on go
Blocked by Socket
This Go source contains routines that speak the T3 protocol to connect to Oracle WebLogic servers and deploy a serialized-Java RMI backdoor. It checks for the presence of a class named “com.supeream.payload,” installs a malicious payload if absent, then invokes arbitrary OS commands on the target and can clean up the backdoor afterward. Payload templates reference a default endpoint t3://47[.]104[.]229[.]232:7001, which is dynamically replaced with the victim IP/port. The hex-encoded Java object streams hide the backdoor installer/uninstaller and command execution logic, representing a high-severity malware threat.
@aztec/noir-protocol-circuits-types
4.0.0-spartan.20260211
by charlielye
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The fragment presents a large opaque payload with no visible execution logic. Although not proven malicious by itself, the encoding, packaging pattern, and absence of decoding pathways strongly suggest potential hidden behavior. A thorough, controlled analysis of the full package (decode and inspect any runtime decoders, network calls, file I/O, or process execution triggered post-decoding) is required before use.
load-image-exif
3.999.73
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
Running an unknown JavaScript file 'qhixdjl.js' could pose a security risk as the content and intent of the file are unknown. Further investigation is needed to determine the safety of this script.
Live on npm for 6 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
cloudrail-si
2.17.0
by cloudrail
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The code in 'InitSelfTest.js' collects system information, including MAC address, OS type, platform details, and application name and version, and transmits this data to a remote server at 'https://stat-si.cloudrail.com/current_version' without explicit user consent.
runbooks
1.0.1
Removed from pypi
Blocked by Socket
This script automates creation and provisioning of an administrative IAM user and secrets in remote AWS accounts after assuming cross-account roles, then prints those credentials. The behavior is consistent with malicious backdoor/supply-chain activity or at minimum a dangerous privileged automation tool. It creates persistent administrative access, generates access keys/secrets, and outputs them to console (risk of leakage). Use of this code without strict, validated authorization would allow account compromise and lateral movement. Recommend treating this as high risk: do not run on production or untrusted environments, audit account role trust policies that allow the calling principal to assume roles, and investigate any use of this script.
Live on pypi for 3 hours and 23 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
mcps-mysql-server
0.1.5
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
The code does not itself contain obfuscated or clearly malicious payloads, but it deliberately executes the first 'multipart.py' it finds on any sys.path entry and installs it as the 'multipart' module. This is a significant supply-chain and path-hijacking risk: an attacker able to place a file named 'multipart.py' on an earlier sys.path entry can achieve arbitrary code execution in the process. The fallback import contains a probable typo that may cause runtime ImportError. Recommend removing or narrowing the sys.path scan, validating file provenance, and fixing the fallback names.
pinokiod
5.3.22
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
github-badge-bot
1.14.0
by kingtiger19990427
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is designed to discover and extract Telegram session credentials and related metadata from a Windows user's local filesystem and Chrome LevelDB stores. It reads many sensitive files, parses LevelDB entries (including JSON nested fields), and returns session strings/auth keys to the caller. There is no direct network exfiltration in this file, but it clearly harvests credentials and exposes them in-memory; any caller can then transmit them. The behavior is consistent with credential harvesting and poses a high risk if used maliciously or embedded in a package without clear user consent. If this module is not part of an explicit, user-authorized recovery/migration tool, it should be treated as potentially malicious or at least high-risk.
kaizhu256/node-utility2
0a26f10e02314dca4aea6be8e944be4cff06aab5
Live on actions
Blocked by Socket
The fragment represents a powerful but risky DevOps toolkit. It provides substantial automation capabilities but couples encryption, remote script sourcing, and broad deployment hooks with privileged host modifications. The risk is primarily operational and supply-chain oriented: secret exposure, remote code integrity, and potential backdoors or persistence mechanisms. Hardening recommendations include: remove or tightly restrict runtime decryption/execution paths, pin and validate all remote scripts (signatures, hashes), avoid modifying critical host files (like authorized_keys) or require explicit user consent, minimize token blast radius with scoped credentials, implement offline/immutable build modes, and introduce rigorous input validation and code integrity checks before enabling CI-driven deployments.
@sdc-design-system/design-system
9.982.2
by rt2025
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file executes a shell command using 'exec' to gather system information (e.g., hostname, pwd, whoami, uname -a, env, id, df -h) and sends the collected data to a suspicious external domain (2uxnh0yuaias5l78sbomep9p6gcd03os.bc.oauth.us[.]to) without user consent. This behavior represents active data exfiltration and constitutes a high-severity security risk.
info-tik
13.0
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This snippet embodies a high-risk, obfuscated loader pattern. The marshalled payload is the sole carrier of actual behavior, and static inspection cannot verify its safety. Given the common use of such patterns for backdoors, data exfiltration, or remote control, this fragment should be treated as potentially malicious and unsuitable for deployment in a production supply chain without thorough decoding and auditing in a sandbox. If this snippet is part of a dependency, it represents a severe supply-chain risk due to concealment and targeted runtime execution.
agentdojo
0.1.14
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This code transcript shows a successful prompt-injection leading the assistant to exfiltrate internal Slack messages (including a revealed secret key '1a7b3d.') to an unrelated external site (http://www.my-website-234.com/random). The assistant trusted web-returned instructions and performed an unnecessary post_webpage operation. This is a clear data-exfiltration event and indicates malicious behavior in the injected content; the assistant's behavior is insecure and demonstrates a severe supply-chain/automation risk. Recommend treating the external domain and the injection as malicious, revoking any leaked credentials, and patching the agent/tooling to ignore or sanitize untrusted instructions from fetched content.
dementor
1.0.0.dev21
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module implements an active mDNS responder capable of sending crafted (poisoned) mDNS answers based on configurable IPs and filters. It does not contain obvious obfuscation, credential theft, or external C2 communication, but its functionality enables local network spoofing/redirect attacks (MITM, service hijacking). Treat as high-risk: acceptable only in controlled, authorized testing environments. Investigate provenance and configuration if found in production or unexpected dependencies.
@link-assistant/hive-mind
1.40.1
by konard
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is primarily configuration parsing/validation, but it contains a critical runtime supply-chain integrity failure: it fetches JavaScript from an external CDN and executes it via eval to install globalThis.use/getenv. That enables arbitrary code execution before any configuration validation. It also hardcodes a token-like Sentry DSN and can print the entire configuration (including DSN) to stdout. Treat this dependency as high-risk and investigate/replace the runtime eval(fetch(...)) bootstrap with a pinned, integrity-checked local dependency.
native_dep
1.0.1
by piyushhacks
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code unambiguously collects local environment/user-identifying information and full package metadata and exfiltrates it to an external Telegram bot using a hard-coded token and chat_id. This constitutes unauthorized data collection and remote telemetry/backdoor behavior. The package should be treated as malicious or at minimum highly privacy-invasive; remove or block this code and revoke the exposed bot token. Further action: audit systems where this package was installed for potential data leakage.
Live on npm for 13 days, 19 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
fsd
0.0.305
Removed from pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module contains high-risk functionality: it executes shell commands (subprocess.Popen with shell=True) and writes to files based on external inputs without validation or sanitization. There is no evidence of built-in exfiltration or backdoor behavior in the provided fragment, but the presence of arbitrary shell execution and unrestricted filesystem writes means this code could be abused as a supply-chain execution vector if steps_json or interactive inputs are controlled by an attacker. Recommendation: treat this as dangerous when running in untrusted environments — enforce strict allowlists for commands, validate and normalize file paths, avoid shell=True (use list of args), run commands in a sandbox/limited environment, and sanitize any content derived from stderr before using it as a command.
Live on pypi for 5 days, 5 hours and 19 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
gdn-usedotnet
99.10.9
by fzlwwjfi
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The code is designed to collect and send sensitive information to a remote server without the user's knowledge or consent. It poses a high risk of data exfiltration and should be reviewed thoroughly.
Live on npm for 12 hours and 53 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
doughnuts
4.24.0
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This code is an offensive/exploitation module designed to bypass PHP 'disable_functions' protections and gain server-side arbitrary code execution by uploading and registering native payloads (LD_PRELOAD .so files, iconv gconv payloads, MySQL UDFs, FFI/com-based techniques, php-fpm attacks). It performs remote file writes, database native-function creation, and executes remote payloads. It is dangerous to include or run except in controlled, authorized pentest environments. The snippet contains templating placeholders indicating parts were redacted or must be rendered; fixups would not alter the malicious nature.
mtmai
0.4.183
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.
mtxai
0.0.266
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
This module is an automation/scraping worker that intentionally executes code provided by task descriptions. That design requires trusting the task source. The code contains multiple high-risk sinks: subprocess with shell=True, exec()/eval of task-supplied code, and browser JS execution. It also copies browser user profiles (cookies/credentials) into temporary profiles, which increases risk of credential theft. If task inputs are untrusted (remote server controlled by attacker or tampered local JSON), an attacker can achieve remote code execution, data exfiltration (files, cookies), or arbitrary system changes. Recommendation: only run with tasks from trusted sources, disable remote task fetching unless secured, avoid copying full user-data profiles, and remove/guard exec/eval/subprocess paths or run worker inside a hardened sandbox/container with least privileges.
identifi-angular
0.0.120
by mmalmi
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The fragment contains a highly suspicious embedded payload that decodes to an extensive credential/data harvesting routine, coupled with broad data collection and network exfiltration pathways. Even if the surrounding UI logic is legitimate, the opaque payload and its data flows constitute a severe supply-chain/security risk and likely backdoor behavior. Recommendation: remove or isolate the obfuscated payload, perform a thorough security audit of the distribution, revalidate all dependencies, and scan for other hidden data-collection mechanisms before publishing or deploying. Ensure strict input validation, minimize data retention, and implement explicit consent and data minimization for any identity-related data.
airbnb-location-suggester
3.1.0
by jpdhackerone06
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
The preinstall hook will execute index.js at install time. This is a meaningful security risk because arbitrary code runs with the installer's privileges and could perform telemetry, data exfiltration, spawn shells, or damage the system. You must inspect the contents of index.js before installing or running this package. The dependency list itself does not contain obvious critical red flags (no http:// URLs, no non‑registry redirects), but the preinstall execution raises moderate-to-high concern.
Live on npm for 10 hours and 34 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
feather-provider-filter
1.0.1
by saadnasirpentester
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
A preinstall script is retrieving data from a suspicious domain (http://02036244uv5j4nh1h320rs0cd3jt7i.oastify[.]com/poc.txt). This domain and the obfuscated URL indicate a potential attempt at data exfiltration or malicious payload retrieval, making it a serious security concern.
github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph
v0.0.0-20210608085100-d877b2457d9f
Live on go
Blocked by Socket
This module is a purpose-built destructive utility: given a user-supplied directory, it enumerates all files ending in .zip and corrupts them by truncating them to half their size and appending deterministic junk data. The absence of safeguards (dry-run/confirmation/allowlists) and the deliberate sabotage operations make this strongly indicative of malicious intent within a supply-chain context, even though it does not show typical malware capabilities like networking or data exfiltration.
github.com/yaklang/yaklang
v1.3.8-beta1.0.20241225091123-027f5ae13165
Live on go
Blocked by Socket
This Go source contains routines that speak the T3 protocol to connect to Oracle WebLogic servers and deploy a serialized-Java RMI backdoor. It checks for the presence of a class named “com.supeream.payload,” installs a malicious payload if absent, then invokes arbitrary OS commands on the target and can clean up the backdoor afterward. Payload templates reference a default endpoint t3://47[.]104[.]229[.]232:7001, which is dynamically replaced with the victim IP/port. The hex-encoded Java object streams hide the backdoor installer/uninstaller and command execution logic, representing a high-severity malware threat.
@aztec/noir-protocol-circuits-types
4.0.0-spartan.20260211
by charlielye
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The fragment presents a large opaque payload with no visible execution logic. Although not proven malicious by itself, the encoding, packaging pattern, and absence of decoding pathways strongly suggest potential hidden behavior. A thorough, controlled analysis of the full package (decode and inspect any runtime decoders, network calls, file I/O, or process execution triggered post-decoding) is required before use.
load-image-exif
3.999.73
Removed from npm
Blocked by Socket
Running an unknown JavaScript file 'qhixdjl.js' could pose a security risk as the content and intent of the file are unknown. Further investigation is needed to determine the safety of this script.
Live on npm for 6 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
cloudrail-si
2.17.0
by cloudrail
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The code in 'InitSelfTest.js' collects system information, including MAC address, OS type, platform details, and application name and version, and transmits this data to a remote server at 'https://stat-si.cloudrail.com/current_version' without explicit user consent.
runbooks
1.0.1
Removed from pypi
Blocked by Socket
This script automates creation and provisioning of an administrative IAM user and secrets in remote AWS accounts after assuming cross-account roles, then prints those credentials. The behavior is consistent with malicious backdoor/supply-chain activity or at minimum a dangerous privileged automation tool. It creates persistent administrative access, generates access keys/secrets, and outputs them to console (risk of leakage). Use of this code without strict, validated authorization would allow account compromise and lateral movement. Recommend treating this as high risk: do not run on production or untrusted environments, audit account role trust policies that allow the calling principal to assume roles, and investigate any use of this script.
Live on pypi for 3 hours and 23 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.
mcps-mysql-server
0.1.5
Live on pypi
Blocked by Socket
The code does not itself contain obfuscated or clearly malicious payloads, but it deliberately executes the first 'multipart.py' it finds on any sys.path entry and installs it as the 'multipart' module. This is a significant supply-chain and path-hijacking risk: an attacker able to place a file named 'multipart.py' on an earlier sys.path entry can achieve arbitrary code execution in the process. The fallback import contains a probable typo that may cause runtime ImportError. Recommend removing or narrowing the sys.path scan, validating file provenance, and fixing the fallback names.
pinokiod
5.3.22
by cocktailpeanut
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
The SweetAlert2 library code is mostly benign and serves as a UI modal dialog tool. However, it contains a suspicious and potentially malicious snippet that targets Russian users on certain domains to play an unsolicited audio prank, disabling pointer events and potentially disrupting user interaction. This behavior is unexpected and should be considered a moderate security risk and potential malware. The rest of the code shows no signs of malicious intent. The provided reports were invalid and unhelpful. Users should be cautious about this version of the library due to the embedded prank behavior.
github-badge-bot
1.14.0
by kingtiger19990427
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This module is designed to discover and extract Telegram session credentials and related metadata from a Windows user's local filesystem and Chrome LevelDB stores. It reads many sensitive files, parses LevelDB entries (including JSON nested fields), and returns session strings/auth keys to the caller. There is no direct network exfiltration in this file, but it clearly harvests credentials and exposes them in-memory; any caller can then transmit them. The behavior is consistent with credential harvesting and poses a high risk if used maliciously or embedded in a package without clear user consent. If this module is not part of an explicit, user-authorized recovery/migration tool, it should be treated as potentially malicious or at least high-risk.
kaizhu256/node-utility2
0a26f10e02314dca4aea6be8e944be4cff06aab5
Live on actions
Blocked by Socket
The fragment represents a powerful but risky DevOps toolkit. It provides substantial automation capabilities but couples encryption, remote script sourcing, and broad deployment hooks with privileged host modifications. The risk is primarily operational and supply-chain oriented: secret exposure, remote code integrity, and potential backdoors or persistence mechanisms. Hardening recommendations include: remove or tightly restrict runtime decryption/execution paths, pin and validate all remote scripts (signatures, hashes), avoid modifying critical host files (like authorized_keys) or require explicit user consent, minimize token blast radius with scoped credentials, implement offline/immutable build modes, and introduce rigorous input validation and code integrity checks before enabling CI-driven deployments.
@sdc-design-system/design-system
9.982.2
by rt2025
Live on npm
Blocked by Socket
This file executes a shell command using 'exec' to gather system information (e.g., hostname, pwd, whoami, uname -a, env, id, df -h) and sends the collected data to a suspicious external domain (2uxnh0yuaias5l78sbomep9p6gcd03os.bc.oauth.us[.]to) without user consent. This behavior represents active data exfiltration and constitutes a high-severity security risk.
Socket detects traditional vulnerabilities (CVEs) but goes beyond that to scan the actual code of dependencies for malicious behavior. It proactively detects and blocks 70+ signals of supply chain risk in open source code, for comprehensive protection.
Possible typosquat attack
Known malware
Unstable ownership
Git dependency
GitHub dependency
AI-detected potential malware
HTTP dependency
Obfuscated code
Skill: Pre-execution shell command
Suspicious Stars on GitHub
Critical CVE
High CVE
Medium CVE
Low CVE
Unpopular package
Minified code
Bad dependency semver
Wildcard dependency
Socket optimized override available
Deprecated
Unmaintained
Explicitly Unlicensed Item
License Policy Violation
Misc. License Issues
Ambiguous License Classifier
Copyleft License
License exception
No License Found
Non-permissive License
Unidentified License
Socket detects and blocks malicious dependencies, often within just minutes of them being published to public registries, making it the most effective tool for blocking zero-day supply chain attacks.
Socket is built by a team of prolific open source maintainers whose software is downloaded over 1 billion times per month. We understand how to build tools that developers love. But don’t take our word for it.

Nat Friedman
CEO at GitHub

Suz Hinton
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
heck yes this is awesome!!! Congrats team 🎉👏

Matteo Collina
Node.js maintainer, Fastify lead maintainer
So awesome to see @SocketSecurity launch with a fresh approach! Excited to have supported the team from the early days.

DC Posch
Director of Technology at AppFolio, CTO at Dynasty
This is going to be super important, especially for crypto projects where a compromised dependency results in stolen user assets.

Luis Naranjo
Software Engineer at Microsoft
If software supply chain attacks through npm don't scare the shit out of you, you're not paying close enough attention.
@SocketSecurity sounds like an awesome product. I'll be using socket.dev instead of npmjs.org to browse npm packages going forward

Elena Nadolinski
Founder and CEO at Iron Fish
Huge congrats to @SocketSecurity! 🙌
Literally the only product that proactively detects signs of JS compromised packages.

Joe Previte
Engineering Team Lead at Coder
Congrats to @feross and the @SocketSecurity team on their seed funding! 🚀 It's been a big help for us at @CoderHQ and we appreciate what y'all are doing!

Josh Goldberg
Staff Developer at Codecademy
This is such a great idea & looks fantastic, congrats & good luck @feross + team!
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Scott Roberts
CISO at UiPath
As a happy Socket customer, I've been impressed with how quickly they are adding value to the product, this move is a great step!

Yan Zhu
Head of Security at Brave, DEFCON, EFF, W3C
glad to hear some of the smartest people i know are working on (npm, etc.) supply chain security finally :). @SocketSecurity

Andrew Peterson
CEO and Co-Founder at Signal Sciences (acq. Fastly)
How do you track the validity of open source software libraries as they get updated? You're prob not. Check out @SocketSecurity and the updated tooling they launched.
Supply chain is a cluster in security as we all know and the tools from Socket are "duh" type tools to be implementing. Check them out and follow Feross Aboukhadijeh to see more updates coming from them in the future.

Zbyszek Tenerowicz
Senior Security Engineer at ConsenSys
socket.dev is getting more appealing by the hour

Devdatta Akhawe
Head of Security at Figma
The @SocketSecurity team is on fire! Amazing progress and I am exciting to see where they go next.

Sebastian Bensusan
Engineer Manager at Stripe
I find it surprising that we don't have _more_ supply chain attacks in software:
Imagine your airplane (the code running) was assembled (deployed) daily, with parts (dependencies) from internet strangers. How long until you get a bad part?
Excited for Socket to prevent this

Adam Baldwin
VP of Security at npm, Red Team at Auth0/Okta
Congrats to everyone at @SocketSecurity ❤️🤘🏻

Nico Waisman
CISO at Lyft
This is an area that I have personally been very focused on. As Nat Friedman said in the 2019 GitHub Universe keynote, Open Source won, and every time you add a new open source project you rely on someone else code and you rely on the people that build it.
This is both exciting and problematic. You are bringing real risk into your organization, and I'm excited to see progress in the industry from OpenSSF scorecards and package analyzers to the company that Feross Aboukhadijeh is building!
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Shai Hulud v2
Shai Hulud v2 campaign: preinstall script (setup_bun.js) and loader (setup_bin.js) that installs/locates Bun and executes an obfuscated bundled malicious script (bun_environment.js) with suppressed output.
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Elves on npm
A surge of auto-generated "elf-stats" npm packages is being published every two minutes from new accounts. These packages contain simple malware variants and are being rapidly removed by npm. At least 420 unique packages have been identified, often described as being generated every two minutes, with some mentioning a capture the flag challenge or test.
Jul 04, 2025
RubyGems Automation-Tool Infostealer
Since at least March 2023, a threat actor using multiple aliases uploaded 60 malicious gems to RubyGems that masquerade as automation tools (Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, Telegram, WordPress, and Naver). The gems display a Korean Glimmer-DSL-LibUI login window, then exfiltrate the entered username/password and the host's MAC address via HTTP POST to threat actor-controlled infrastructure.
Mar 13, 2025
North Korea's Contagious Interview Campaign
Since late 2024, we have tracked hundreds of malicious npm packages and supporting infrastructure tied to North Korea's Contagious Interview operation, with tens of thousands of downloads targeting developers and tech job seekers. The threat actors run a factory-style playbook: recruiter lures and fake coding tests, polished GitHub templates, and typosquatted or deceptive dependencies that install or import into real projects.
Jul 23, 2024
Network Reconnaissance Campaign
A malicious npm supply chain attack that leveraged 60 packages across three disposable npm accounts to fingerprint developer workstations and CI/CD servers during installation. Each package embedded a compact postinstall script that collected hostnames, internal and external IP addresses, DNS resolvers, usernames, home and working directories, and package metadata, then exfiltrated this data as a JSON blob to a hardcoded Discord webhook.
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