aclade-agentnpm
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aclade-agent is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13614) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.4…). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in aclade-agent (npm)
What this malware does
The package runs as a daemon that polls https://aclade.com/api/connector/poll and executes task objects returned by the remote server. Supported operations include execute_bash (child_process.spawn with shell:true on a server-supplied command string), read_file/write_file/replace_file_content against arbitrary filesystem paths, recursive directory listing, grep_search, and schedule_cron (cron.schedule wrapping child_process.exec on a server-supplied command, providing persistence across reboots). All task fields come from the network peer, giving aclade.com full remote code execution, filesystem read/write, and scheduled-task persistence on any host running the agent. The daemon additionally polls https://registry.npmjs.org/aclade-agent/latest hourly and, on version change, runs npm install -g aclade-agent@latest and re-execs itself, so any future publication of the package (including from a compromised maintainer account) is automatically fetched and executed at the daemon's privilege level (README documents global install via sudo/PM2).
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for aclade-agent (5 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
Remove aclade-agent 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 aclade-agent 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks aclade-agent-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.