MAL-2026-12435

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/sc-geeksquad-core/MAL-2026-12435.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-12435
Published
2026-08-05T13:07:29Z
Modified
2026-08-05T13:35:54.841354675Z
Summary
Malicious code in sc-geeksquad-core (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (2fd2458d8a5843f57187868a2c244a376dd3d2daef420d3c564c775ef6a2782a)

sc-geeksquad-core@9999.0.0 declares a preinstall script node callback.js that runs automatically on npm install. The script collects the installer's hostname (os.hostname()), OS username (os.userInfo().username), current working directory (process.cwd()), configured npm registry (npm_config_registry), and a set of CI repository-slug environment variables (GITHUBREPOSITORY, CIPROJECTPATH, BUILDREPOSITORYNAME, BITBUCKETREPOFULLNAME, TRAVISREPOSLUG, DRONEREPO, BUILDKITEPIPELINESLUG, CIRCLEPROJECTREPONAME, JOBNAME), then sends them via HTTP GET to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint http://75.119.137.232:31337/depconfuse as query parameters. The placeholder version 9999.0.0 combined with a generic scoped-sounding name is the canonical dependency-confusion reconnaissance shape: the package is published to public npm to intercept internal-package name resolution and beacon back which private-namespace builds are vulnerable to substitution.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T13:07:29Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-014891",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T13:08:53.322400325Z",
            "sha256": "2fd2458d8a5843f57187868a2c244a376dd3d2daef420d3c564c775ef6a2782a",
            "versions": [
                "9999.0.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / sc-geeksquad-core

Package

Name
sc-geeksquad-core
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Purl
pkg:npm/sc-geeksquad-core

Affected ranges

Affected versions

9999.*
9999.0.0

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "sc-geeksquad-core-9999.0.0.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-upAoB93tviS4WRPiZVsgfejdOz9cBNsioQ2jEsYt3mWJaxmVOaxHCkxj7srGOJbYCiRBIDm1O7WxkJttGA/z/g==",
                "sha1": "2ba8e9b9308db1c083f88cf80285178f26e11490"
            }
        }
    ],
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "tlsh": "2b117bb9c68c0c3409c21780796c6c5eb8fbd29233c294917f2d71d26bb22b046b75b9",
            "sha256": "34b0456abf5f832f3a75addcda3dc765fe77a0929196a9d4e754393fa0fe0af5",
            "path": "callback.js"
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/sc-geeksquad-core/MAL-2026-12435.json"
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    }
]