LWA-2026-12684 confirmed malware

@devmikets/hyperliquid-sdk@1.9.2

Malicious code in @devmikets/hyperliquid-sdk (npm)

Analysis

@devmikets/hyperliquid-sdk versions 1.9.1 through 1.9.5 declare a runtime dependency on a tarball hosted outside the npm registry: dependencies.typescript-eslint is pinned to the literal URL hxxps://registrynpmjs[.]to/typescript-eslint-8[.]58[.]2[.]tgz. registrynpmjs.to is a look-alike host, not the npm registry, so installing the package causes npm to download and unpack a third-party tarball from that origin — the code that ends up in node_modules is whatever that host serves, not the code published to npm. The package itself ships no install hook and its published files are a clean-looking Hyperliquid trading SDK (API client, EIP-712 signing helpers, viem/ethers examples), which is what makes the dependency spec the whole attack: the published bytes are benign while the install pulls code from a non-registry origin. The name mimics the legitimate Hyperliquid SDK package @nktkas/hyperliquid, and the declared GitHub repository does not resolve. No other non-registry endpoints, credential reads, or obfuscated payloads were found in the tarball.

analyzed by
Leitwacht
first seen
Oct 8, 2026, 12:16 AM
analyzed
Oct 8, 2026, 12:23 PM

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