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Malicious package

@bluewin/utilsnpm

Advisory published Updated

@bluewin/utils is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17437) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in @bluewin/utils (npm)

MAL-2026-17437
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall @bluewin/utils

What this malware does

@bluewin/utils is a dependency-confusion package: it describes itself as a "PoC package for dependency confusion testing" and claims the @bluewin scope, so a build that resolves that scope from the public registry runs its code instead of the intended private package. Its postinstall script runs node postinstall.js on npm install, which sends an HTTPS request to https://5w2cezr3af2i0rvm72x74empvg18pzdo.oastify.com/bluewin/utils, a Burp Collaborator endpoint, disclosing the installing host's IP address and that it installed the package. It collects no further data, but unreviewed code from an outside publisher has run with the installing user's privileges. The npm account securityresearch1 published it on 2026-10-01.

@bluewin/[email protected] ships a postinstall lifecycle script that performs an HTTPS GET to a hardcoded Burp Collaborator subdomain at https://5w2cezr3af2i0rvm72x74empvg18pzdo.oastify.com/bluewin/utils on every install. The request path embeds the package coordinate, and the outbound DNS resolution and HTTP hit confirm code execution on the installer's machine and disclose the installer's resolver/egress IP to the operator of the oastify.com subdomain. The @bluewin scope and utility name are consistent with a dependency-confusion probe targeting an internal package namespace: any build system that resolves @bluewin/utils from the public npm registry instead of a private registry will fetch and run this beacon at install time. Although the behavior is a reconnaissance beacon rather than a full payload, it establishes attacker-side confirmation of exploitability and leaks environment metadata without consent.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1.0.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

e11917724d1e65e5bb29f8e93e5ebafc9be1bac419a014f35ddd460bcae26265

Detection & response playbook

Backdoor / remote access
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for @bluewin/utils (version 1.0.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    @bluewin/utils establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.

  3. Did it already run?

    If @bluewin/utils 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. @bluewin/utils on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-020944

References

Credits

  • Amazon Inspector · finder
  • InvisiRisk, Inc. · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks @bluewin/utils-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.

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