MAL-2026-6249 Malicious code in blinkit-core (npm)

On npm install, the package's preinstall lifecycle hook runs curl against http://d8s0b82plbq3u5sb2vo0sb3a9obr4yjt7.oast.site/ and POSTs the installer's hostname (hostname -f), current user (whoami), working directory, and a base64-encoded dump of the entire process environment (env | base64 -w0) — which on CI/build hosts routinely contains tokens, cloud credentials, and registry auth. The package itself is hollow: index.js only exports { name, version } and provides no functionality. The repository.url claims git+https://github.com/zomato/blinkit-core.git while publishing under that internal-sounding name on the public registry, matching the canonical dependency-confusion attacker shape against Zomato's internal blinkit-core namespace. Installer harm: any build pipeline that resolves this public package instead of an internal mirror leaks host identity and the full environment (including secrets) to the attacker's out-of-band interaction listener at install time, before any other code runs.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'blinkit-core' @ 1.0.0 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

• The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

• The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.