aitable-workflow-servernpm
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aitable-workflow-server is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13437) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 9.9.9). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in aitable-workflow-server (npm)
What this malware does
The package's dist/index.js contains code combining OS command execution (ping) with outbound HTTP POST requests, a pattern consistent with host reconnaissance and data beaconing to an external endpoint. The package name resembles a legitimate workflow tool but the shipped bundle is a small file whose only functionality is issuing ping commands and POSTing results outward, with no code implementing the advertised workflow-server functionality. Version 9.9.9 is a version-number pattern frequently used in dependency-confusion attacks targeting internal package names.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for aitable-workflow-server (version 9.9.9).
If you installed it — respond
aitable-workflow-server 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 aitable-workflow-server 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 aitable-workflow-server-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.