MAL-2026-5463 Malicious code in db-dx-connector (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-5463 is a malicious package: db-dx-connector (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-2026-5463/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5463/index.md)
- Package
- db-dx-connector
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-5463?
MAL-2026-5463 is a malicious package in db-dx-connector, published on 9 Jun 2026.
Official description
The package name
db-dx-connector inverts the word order of the legitimate dx-db-connector package (whose own GitHub URL github.com/divbloxjs/dx-db-connector is referenced in this package's metadata). It replicates the legitimate package's MySQL-connector API surface and adds an undocumented method queryDBConnect in index.js (lines 226-238) that constitutes a backdoor: a base64-encoded URL stored in a misleadingly named HASH_KEY constant decodes to https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/ZIAIK (an anonymous, mutable paste-hosting service), the method fetches .data.content from that URL via axios, constructs a synthetic Node module, and calls m._compile(s1, 'error.js') to execute the fetched JavaScript inside the consumer's Node process. Errors are silently swallowed in a try/catch. Whoever controls the paste can ship arbitrary code into any process that calls queryDBConnect(). The combination of name inversion against a real package, base64 URL obfuscation, anonymous attacker-controlled host, runtime fetch+compile of remote JavaScript, and silent error suppression is an unambiguous remote-code-execution backdoor.What should I do about MAL-2026-5463?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.