MAL-2026-6542 Malicious code in @osmura/treeify (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-6542 is a malicious package: @osmura/treeify (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-2026-6542/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6542/index.md)
- Package
- @osmura/treeify
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-6542?
MAL-2026-6542 is a malicious package in @osmura/treeify, published on 26 Jun 2026.
Official description
The package republishes the upstream
treeify library (Luke Plaster, repo notatestuser/treeify) verbatim under the unrelated @osmura scope, preserving the original package.json author/repository/keywords/README as cover. Appended to treeify.js (starting around line 115) is ~93KB of obfuscator.io-style code (RC4+base64 string-array, while(!![]) control-flow flattening) that runs whenever a consumer does require('@osmura/treeify'). The injected code re-spawns Node detached with a marker environment variable, issues an HTTPS request to a hostname encoded inside the obfuscated string array, AES-256-GCM-decrypts the response using a key XOR-derived from four embedded base64 buffers, writes the plaintext payload into os.tmpdir()/<name>-<pid>/, and spawns it via child_process.spawn(..., {stdio:..., windowsHide: true, detached: true}) — see treeify.js:116 var aM = at[ba(0x19,...)](aK, aL, {'stdio':..., 'windowsHide':!![], 'detached':!![]}) and the corresponding https.request({method: 'GET', hostname: aG[...], timeout: 60000},...) call. Two independent injected IIFEs implement the same dropper with separate encoded URL pools, providing fallback C2. Any installer that requires this package fetches and executes attacker-controlled code on their machine at import time.What should I do about MAL-2026-6542?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.