@43uh3ig43/telemetry-clientnpm
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@43uh3ig43/telemetry-client is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-4252) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 99.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @43uh3ig43/telemetry-client (npm)
What this malware does
On npm install, the package's preinstall, install, and postinstall lifecycle hooks all invoke telemetry.js, which collects host metadata (OS, architecture, Node version, pid) and CI-provider identification (probing GITHUB_ACTIONS, AZURE_DEVOPS, JENKINS_HOME environment variables), hex-encodes the JSON payload, and exfiltrates it via DNS lookups to subdomains of d87vcrdfokaufbs0qf903rg6tp9to7jpe.oast.pro — a Project Discovery interactsh out-of-band server. The exfil destination is split-string concatenated at telemetry.js:15 ("d87vcrdfokaufbs0"+"qf903rg6tp9to7jpe"+"."+"oa"+"st"+"."+"pro") specifically to evade naive static grep. The package's user-facing index.js is a stub that only logs a string; the real behavior is the install-time beacon. Combined with the random-looking scope, anomalously high version (99.0.1), and UNLICENSED metadata, this is the canonical fingerprint of a dependency-confusion / supply-chain recon probe — designed to trigger from corporate build systems whose internal package names collide with this scope and to phone home with enough host context to identify the victim organization.
Any 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.
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified '@43uh3ig43/telemetry-client' @ 99.0.1 (npm) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for @43uh3ig43/telemetry-client (version 99.0.1).
If you installed it — respond
@43uh3ig43/telemetry-client is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If @43uh3ig43/telemetry-client was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.
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- OpenSSF: Package Analysis · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks @43uh3ig43/telemetry-client-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.