@cw-ui/micro-ui-loadernpm
@cw-ui/micro-ui-loader is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10557) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 2.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader (npm)
What this malware does
On npm install, postinstall.js reads the installer's hostname via os.hostname() and sends it as a query parameter to a hardcoded bare-IP HTTP endpoint: http://37.60.255.218/skybackground.png?display=${encodeURIComponent(displayProfile)}. The response is saved locally as downloaded-image.jpg as a cover story. The package's README advertises 'Simple Text Utils' for string operations (capitalize/reverse/wordCount), and index.js exports only downloadImage — neither matches the stated purpose. The author field is the placeholder 'Your Name'. The combination of hardcoded bare-IP destination, plain HTTP, install-time auto-execution, host-identifier exfiltration, README/behavior mismatch, and placeholder metadata is a recon beacon shape, not legitimate functionality. Installing this package leaks the host's identifier to an attacker-controlled IP without consent.
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.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader (version 2.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
@cw-ui/micro-ui-loader 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 @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks @cw-ui/micro-ui-loader-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.