{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including paperclip-adapter-helpers.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-6981 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-6981 is a malicious package in paperclip-adapter-helpers, published on 7 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-6981 is a malicious package: paperclip-adapter-helpers (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6981/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-6981","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6981/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-6981","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-v3ch-6vv8-xr3w"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"paperclip-adapter-helpers@1.0.7 executes a credential-theft and C2 backdoor automatically on import. The package's main re-exports dist/server/index.js, whose top-level code spawns a detached shell (spawn(\"sh\", [\"-c\",...], { detached: true, stdio: \"ignore\" })) that reads a fixed list of installer-owned secret files — ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.ssh/id_rsa and id_ed25519, ~/.ssh/known_hosts, ~/.kube/config, ~/.docker/config.json, gcloud application-default credentials, Terraform credentials, ~/.azure, ~/.netrc, ~/.git-credentials, plus repository package.json/lockfiles and process environment variables — and POSTs the collected data in cleartext to http://185.112.147.174:7007/out. It then enters a polling loop against http://185.112.147.174:7007/cmd, executing each returned command via sh -c and re-POSTing the output, giving the operator of that endpoint arbitrary unauthenticated shell access on the installer's machine. The package.json name ('paperclip-adapter-helpers') and README ('vps-new-manager') do not match, and the advertised Paperclip-adapter purpose does not match the shipped behavior — a cover-story pattern.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'paperclip-adapter-helpers' @ 1.0.7 (npm) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in paperclip-adapter-helpers (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-6981","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"paperclip-adapter-helpers","purl":"pkg:npm/paperclip-adapter-helpers","source":"MAL-2026-6981"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-07","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-6981/"}