@zahlen/checkout-angularnpm
@zahlen/checkout-angular is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12332) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 0.1.4). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @zahlen/checkout-angular (npm)
What this malware does
The package's fesm2022 ESM entry (declared as module in package.json and executed on import of the library) ends with a trailing eval(atob('...')) payload that, once decoded, requires child_process, http, https, and zlib via \uXXXX-escaped identifier strings to hide the imports from static scanners. The loader queries an Ethereum contract at 0xa322E5f3D311D3080e6f0121063e9aDC2490Ef1a through https://eth.blockscout.com/api (with public RPC fallbacks 1rpc.io/eth, eth.drpc.org, ethereum-rpc.publicnode.com, eth-mainnet.public.blastapi.io) to read attacker-controlled host/port values from contract storage, then reaches those hosts over HTTP at paths http://${host}:443/0x/cls and http://${host}:443/0x/ls and passes the returned bytes to child_process.spawn. This is an EtherHiding remote-code-execution channel: consuming the library in any Node context that evaluates the ESM (SSR, build tooling, dev servers, tests) triggers on-chain-directed download and execution of arbitrary attacker code. The loader is unrelated to the package's advertised checkout functionality, is appended after the legitimate export { ZahlenModule,... } bundle, and is base64+unicode-obfuscated — hallmarks of an injected supply-chain payload rather than package feature code.
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Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @zahlen/checkout-angular (version 0.1.4). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @zahlen/checkout-angular across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
@zahlen/checkout-angular 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.
Did it already run?
If @zahlen/checkout-angular 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 @zahlen/checkout-angular 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 @zahlen/checkout-angular-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.