LWA-2026-7654 MAL-2026-12204 ↗ confirmed malware

simple-date-formatter-util-16@1.0.0

Malicious code in simple-date-formatter-util-16 (npm)

T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply ChainT1059.007 · JavaScriptT1059.004 · Unix ShellT1082 · System Information DiscoveryT1552.001 · Credentials In FilesT1071.001 · Web ProtocolsT1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

Analysis

Combosquat package impersonating a date-formatting utility. On npm install, the postinstall hook runs two payloads: (1) postinstall.js reads SSH public keys from ~/.ssh/ and user account metadata, then exfiltrates them via HTTPS POST to 124[.]221[.]154[.]135:443; (2) an inline shell script creates a block device node, mounts the host filesystem, enumerates Kubernetes configuration files and serviceaccount tokens, lists /var/lib/kubelet/pods/, and pipes all collected data via curl POST to safjhdvsfwzhieemkdzbgr54r0yjhrmok[.]oast[.]fun/escinfo4. The package's index.js is a benign decoy function.

analyzed by
Leitwacht
first seen
Aug 3, 2026, 04:22 PM
analyzed
Aug 3, 2026, 04:23 PM

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Independently detected by the Leitwacht supply-chain probe. IOCs are defanged. Published CC0. Think this is a mistake? See the dispute policy.