{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including sc-geeksquad-core.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12435 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-12435 is a malicious package in sc-geeksquad-core, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12435 is a malicious package: sc-geeksquad-core (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12435/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12435/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12435","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12435/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12435","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"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 (GITHUB_REPOSITORY, CI_PROJECT_PATH, BUILD_REPOSITORY_NAME, BITBUCKET_REPO_FULL_NAME, TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG, DRONE_REPO, BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_SLUG, CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME, JOB_NAME), 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.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'sc-geeksquad-core' @ 99.9.1 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in sc-geeksquad-core (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12435","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"sc-geeksquad-core","purl":"pkg:npm/sc-geeksquad-core","source":"MAL-2026-12435"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12435/"}