agent-bot-apinpm
agent-bot-api is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12138) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in agent-bot-api (npm)
What this malware does
Package establishes a persistent remote-access channel to the hardcoded server https://server.junofficial.biz.id. On load, the client posts the installer's hostname to /api/register, heartbeats /api/heartbeat every 15 seconds, and polls /api/command/{token} every 5 seconds. Commands returned by the server are passed to child_process.exec with a configurable working directory, and additional operations perform arbitrary fs.readFile / fs.writeFile / rename / remove on the host filesystem. Command output is POSTed back to the same server. A server-issued token is persisted to.cache/publickey.txt, giving the operator persistent keyed reachability to the installer host. This is a full remote shell / RAT with attacker-controlled RCE on any machine that installs or runs the package.
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.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
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 agent-bot-api (2 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging agent-bot-api across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
agent-bot-api 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 agent-bot-api 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 agent-bot-api 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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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks agent-bot-api-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.