@onescience/onecodenpm
Malicious code in @onescience/onecode (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
The postinstall lifecycle script runs ensurePlatformBinary, which when the optionalDependency install fails to populate the platform package falls back to fetching a.tgz over HTTPS from a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint, https://218.90.133.98:4443/onecode_tgz/, with rejectUnauthorized:false disabling TLS certificate verification. The fetched archive is extracted with tar, the extracted binary is chmod 0755 and hardlinked into bin/.onecode, and that binary becomes the CLI invoked as onecode. No hash or signature verification is performed, the host is a bare IP rather than a publisher-owned domain, and the URL always constructs onecode-linux-x64-<version>.tgz regardless of the detected platform/arch. Whoever controls the endpoint at 218.90.133.98:4443 — or any on-path attacker, given TLS verification is disabled — can deliver arbitrary executable content to any installer whose optional platform dependency fails to install.
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @onescience/onecode (3 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @onescience/onecode across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove @onescience/onecode from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.
Did it already run?
If @onescience/onecode 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 @onescience/onecode 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 @onescience/onecode-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.