css-reading-display-polyfillnpm
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css-reading-display-polyfill is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17656) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in css-reading-display-polyfill (npm)
What this malware does
css-reading-display-polyfill is described as a CSS polyfill but contains no polyfill code. When its thunderboltRegistry.js is loaded, it runs id, whoami, uname -a, env, ifconfig and cat /etc/hosts and sends the output with the hostname to a webhook.site collector. The file also exports stubs named after Wix Thunderbolt registry modules. The environment variables are sent as well, so tokens and API keys stored in them can be leaked.
thunderboltRegistry.js runs an IIFE at module load that invokes child_process.execSync to collect host identity (id, whoami, uname), the first 2000 bytes of the environment (env | head -100), network interfaces (ifconfig), and /etc/hosts, then transmits the results together with the hostname and Node version to a hardcoded webhook.site URL (https://webhook.site/69bcd627-1871-4dda-b880-83b37ceac418) via https.get and fetch. The package exports proxies for internal Wix thunderbolt registry names (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, documentManagementRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry, dataBindingRegistry, and others) with a manifest pointing at static.parastorage.com/unpkg/, and the beacon is labelled beacon=rce-poc, consistent with a dependency-confusion probe against Wix build infrastructure. The exfiltrated environment typically contains CI secrets and cloud credentials, giving an installer-side credential-theft blast radius wherever the build pipeline resolves these internal names to this package.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for css-reading-display-polyfill (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
css-reading-display-polyfill 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 css-reading-display-polyfill 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks css-reading-display-polyfill-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.