MAL-2026-4418 Malicious code in @pluxee-connect/api-client (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
@pluxee-connect/api-client
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-4418?

MAL-2026-4418 is a malicious package in @pluxee-connect/api-client, published on 20 May 2026.

Official description

On npm install, postinstall.js collects os.hostname(), os.userInfo(), and process.version and transmits them over plain HTTP to 716bw4e4k31qif2nc1v658fb62ct0soh.oastify.com (a Burp Collaborator out-of-band interaction subdomain), with DNS resolution providing a second exfil channel via subdomain encoding. The package itself is a near-empty shell — index.js exports only a ConsentsStatus enum — and is published at version 99.0.1, far above any plausible legitimate release for the @pluxee-connect scope. The structural shape (high-bumped version + trivial functional surface + lifecycle-time OOB beacon to oastify.com) is the canonical dependency-confusion attack against an internal scope. Any developer or CI system that resolves @pluxee-connect/api-client from public npm will leak machine identifiers to the attacker.

What should I do about MAL-2026-4418?

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

Sources

Also known as GHSA-wpmr-hxhp-4h27.

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