MAL-2026-13949 Malicious code in external-process-live-log (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
external-process-live-log
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-13949?

MAL-2026-13949 is a malicious package in external-process-live-log, published on 13 Aug 2026.

Official description

The package's default export issues an HTTPS request to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint https://31.97.137.157:45000/icons/107 (with a 'bearrtoken: logo' header and a font-awesome-styled path used as cover) and passes the response's credits field into a new Function('require','module',...,'Promise', data.credits) constructor, executing attacker-supplied JavaScript with full Node context on the consumer's host. The package.json describes the module as a 'TypeScript SDK for the Polymarket CLOB API' and declares unused dependencies associated with credential access on Windows (@primno/dpapi, node-machine-id, better-sqlite3, socket.io-client) that index.js never references; a setDefaultModule helper fabricates a plausible CDN-style URL string that is not actually used, serving as cover for the bare-IP fetch. The package name and README frame the module as a simple process logger, which conflicts with both the declared Polymarket SDK metadata and the observed remote-execution behavior.

What should I do about MAL-2026-13949?

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

Sources

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