# MAL-2024-7726: Malicious code in noblox-core-ts (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `noblox-core-ts` (npm)
- **Published:** 11 Jul 2024

## What is MAL-2024-7726?

MAL-2024-7726 is a malicious package in noblox-core-ts, published on 11 Jul 2024. 

### Official description

This package is considered malicious because it contains a heavily obfuscated postinstall.js script with multiple stages of payload execution, resulting in the delivery of QuasarRAT. This allows command and control by a malicious actor.

## What should I do about MAL-2024-7726?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2024-7726 is a malicious package: noblox-core-ts (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-7726/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-7726/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-7726

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Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.