{"id":951,"date":"2026-05-18T11:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/?p=951"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:21:01","slug":"four-malicious-npm-packages-deliver-infostealers-and-phantom-bot-ddos-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Four Malicious npm Packages Deliver Infostealers and Phantom Bot DDoS Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\"><i class=\"icon-font icon-user\">\ue804<\/i><span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span><i class=\"icon-font icon-calendar\">\ue802<\/i><span class=\"author\">May 18, 2026<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Supply Chain Attack \/ Botnet<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articlebody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhbN7WbW1cUkMzMJl0HPvRrQQUc5MQEE3Pvrc735aG7RGwpguum4POxa4yeQjyYIyiAYBDj_Zl6Ud8esex0AnQSG2J6TVWat57BLALA4WTi3gr5mfrLC2AHloSuvzx6fg9bTxZUvO-aA5VwHjyqbYecAWm2DnM9SRyt0M1GaqYzlBBKdgUR8BXV3xIDVnVN\/s1700-e365\/npm-hacking.jpg\" style=\"display: block;  text-align: center; \"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced by TeamPCP.<\/p>\n<p>The list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.security\/blog\/new-actors-deploy-shai-hulud-clones-teampcp-copycats-are-here\/\">identified packages<\/a> is below &#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>chalk-tempalte (825 Downloads)<\/li>\n<li>@deadcode09284814\/axios-util (284 Downloads)<\/li>\n<li>axois-utils (963 Downloads)<\/li>\n<li>color-style-utils (934 Downloads)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00abOne of the packages (chalk-tempalte) contains a direct clone of the Shai-Hulud source code that TeamPCP leaked last week, probably inspired as part of the supply chain attack competition that was published in BreachForums not long after,\u00bb OX Security&#8217;s Moshe Siman Tov Bustan said.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the malicious payloads embedded into the four npm packages are different, despite them being published by the same npm user, \u00ab<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npmjs.com\/~deadcode09284814\">deadcode09284814<\/a>.\u00bb As of writing, the four libraries are still available for download from npm.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dog_two clear\">\n<div class=\"cf\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.uk\/threatlabz-vpn-risk-2026-d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhnNON5UeWywT7OcPNw7V4L7QNWnCnm7Xl_99Y9ek8dL-gRwx-bWxQM1TKqt8deqqrdpUyKMuuijAWyyPQVB0s0qf8ntQ6ldFAJLru-QUWhddKTopc7SeNbBBnd-TsfFyRPP-AAyDuclLlL6XHK4_LXqDC_7eyaz9pzToYr7U543MhrJ7qcK-89sVWHTQUZ\/s728-e100\/zz-2-d.jpg\" width=\"729\" height=\"91\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>An analysis of the packages has revealed that \u00abaxois-utils\u00bb is designed to deliver a Golang-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet called Phantom Bot, with capabilities to flood a target website using HTTP, TCP, and UDP protocols. It also establishes persistence on both Windows and Linux machines by adding the payload to the Windows Startup folder and creating a scheduled task.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The remaining three drop a stealer payload on compromised systems. Of the three packages, the \u00abchalk-tempalte\u00bb package contains a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm released by TeamPCP.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abThe actor took the code, and almost without any change at all &#8212; uploaded a working version with its own C2 server and private key into npm,\u00bb OX Security said. \u00abThe stolen credentials are sent to the remote C2 server &#8212; 87e0bbc636999b.lhr[.]life\u00bb<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEip3qQksZXBRKVYJxNA8Iv2QlO-FDFGJutGr9HcM18AMvqrLh49vuj7tZSz4gR9AoDMDMyfE6TpgI_HsxkPDcn7GMIZNDUU6MBxKj8cr9q7HGF-O5pXaXPlkq6XEHPNQJrMJicWzDMshKwAziJisVfv1qHyU6j5Kh6tGspc9cv0JefxeuVNdGf1pgFzPlLy\/s1700-e365\/ox-security.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEip3qQksZXBRKVYJxNA8Iv2QlO-FDFGJutGr9HcM18AMvqrLh49vuj7tZSz4gR9AoDMDMyfE6TpgI_HsxkPDcn7GMIZNDUU6MBxKj8cr9q7HGF-O5pXaXPlkq6XEHPNQJrMJicWzDMshKwAziJisVfv1qHyU6j5Kh6tGspc9cv0JefxeuVNdGf1pgFzPlLy\/s1700-e365\/ox-security.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"740\" data-original-width=\"817\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In addition, the data is exported to a new GitHub public repository using the stolen GitHub token via the API. The repository is given the description \u00abA Mini Sha1-Hulud has Appeared.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>The other two npm packages, \u00ab@deadcode09284814\/axios-util\u00bb and \u00abcolor-style-utils,\u00bb carry a more straightforward functionality that siphons SSH keys, environment variables, cloud credentials, system information, IP address, and cryptocurrency wallet data to \u00ab80.200.28[.]28:2222\u00bb and \u00abedcf8b03c84634.lhr[.]life,\u00bb respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abThreat actors are getting even more motivated to conduct supply chain and typo-squatting, as attacks become easier to perform with the Shai-Hulud code becoming open source,\u00bb OX Security said.\u00a0 \u00abWe&#8217;re now seeing a single actor with multiple techniques and infostealer types spreading malicious code onto npm, as it\u2019s just the first phase of an upcoming wave of supply chain attacks coming.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Users who have downloaded the packages are uninstall them immediately, find and delete malicious configuration from IDEs and coding agents like Claude Code, rotate secrets, check for GitHub repositories containing the string \u00abA Mini Sha1-Hulud has Appeared,\u00bb and block network access to suspicious domains.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ue804Ravie Lakshmanan\ue802May 18, 2026Supply Chain Attack \/ Botnet Cybersecurity researchers have discovered four new npm packages containing information-stealing malware, one of which is a clone of the Shai-Hulud worm open-sourced&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[358,135,529,1708,33,42,39,35,1709],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bot","tag-ddos","tag-deliver","tag-infostealers","tag-malicious","tag-malware","tag-npm","tag-packages","tag-phantom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedigitalfortress.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}