@osmura/treeifynpm
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@osmura/treeify is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6542) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.1.0, 1.1.2, 1.1.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @osmura/treeify (npm)
What this malware does
The package republishes the upstream treeify library (Luke Plaster, repo notatestuser/treeify) verbatim under the unrelated @osmura scope, preserving the original package.json author/repository/keywords/README as cover. Appended to treeify.js (starting around line 115) is ~93KB of obfuscator.io-style code (RC4+base64 string-array, while(!![]) control-flow flattening) that runs whenever a consumer does require('@osmura/treeify'). The injected code re-spawns Node detached with a marker environment variable, issues an HTTPS request to a hostname encoded inside the obfuscated string array, AES-256-GCM-decrypts the response using a key XOR-derived from four embedded base64 buffers, writes the plaintext payload into os.tmpdir()/<name>-<pid>/, and spawns it via child_process.spawn(..., {stdio:..., windowsHide: true, detached: true}) — see treeify.js:116 var aM = at[ba(0x19,...)](aK, aL, {'stdio':..., 'windowsHide':!![], 'detached':!![]}) and the corresponding https.request({method: 'GET', hostname: aG[...], timeout: 60000},...) call. Two independent injected IIFEs implement the same dropper with separate encoded URL pools, providing fallback C2. Any installer that requires this package fetches and executes attacker-controlled code on their machine at import time.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for @osmura/treeify (3 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
@osmura/treeify 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 @osmura/treeify 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks @osmura/treeify-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.