caspian-day-jsnpm
caspian-day-js is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5892) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.11.23). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in caspian-day-js (npm)
What this malware does
caspian-day-js impersonates the popular dayjs package: package.json copies author iamkun, homepage day.js.org, and repo github.com/iamkun/dayjs.git, and ships an unmodified dayjs.min.js as main so require('caspian-day-js') appears functional. The malicious payload is in the lifecycle hook: package.json declares postinstall: node setup.cjs. setup.cjs is heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io-style string-array with a custom base64 decoder) and at install time sets NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED='0', fetches a remote JavaScript payload, writes it to <tmpdir>/<12-hex>.js, then spawns process.execPath on the dropped file (detached, stdio:'ignore', windowsHide:true) with the C2 endpoint 23.254.164.123:443 passed as argv[1], and finally unlinks setup.cjs to erase traces. Every machine running npm install caspian-day-js executes attacker-controlled JavaScript with TLS verification disabled, contacting 23.254.164.123:443.
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Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for caspian-day-js (version 1.11.23). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging caspian-day-js across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
caspian-day-js 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 caspian-day-js 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 caspian-day-js 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks caspian-day-js-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.