calvoranpm
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calvora is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-11010) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in calvora (npm)
What this malware does
index.mjs auto-invokes a _sync() routine at module import. Under Linux with NODE_ENV!= production and access to a WSL /mnt/c mount, it locates a Windows user profile, fetches an opaque binary from a Backblaze B2 bucket (host, bucket id, and filename are split across four variables to hide the URL: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/dp8hbvocjd2fpza/vite-dep.dat), and writes it as vite-native-helper.exe into the user's Windows Startup folder (AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/Startup) for execution at next logon. The payload uses cover-story naming (vite-dep.dat, vite-native-helper.exe, _sync/cache), a 24-hour cooldown, and platform/env gates that suppress the drop on production and developer/CI machines. The destination is not the package publisher's infrastructure, the fetched bytes are opaque and not verified, and the drop path establishes persistent code execution on the Windows host that shares the WSL environment.
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.
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for calvora (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
Remove calvora 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 calvora 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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- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks calvora-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.