db-rakenpm
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db-rake is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6540) that executes malicious code on install (malicious versions 1.0.1, 1.0.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in db-rake (npm)
What this malware does
When a consumer imports db-rake and constructs any Model, the package's resetor() method silently runs npm install db-dx-connector (unpinned, no-save: true, loglevel: silent, no-warnings: true) via oubliette's syncApi, then requires the freshly-fetched module and invokes new DxDatabaseConnector({}).queryDBConnect(). The install primitive is concealed by aliasing the import as npm (const { syncApi: npm } = require("oubliette")) so call sites read as innocuous npm().install(...), and all output is suppressed. The fetched package is attacker-mutable (latest tag), unrelated to the README's stated purpose (an in-memory mobx-backed database), and undocumented. A commented-out adjacent block in dist/index.js shows the same technique templated against a different target package (clsx-js via execSync('npm uninstall clsx-js && npm install clsx-js', { stdio: 'ignore', windowsHide: true })), corroborating that the live db-dx-connector path is a deliberately engineered dropper rather than benign auto-recovery. Any code published to db-dx-connector at any future time will be executed in the consumer's process.
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-rake (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
Remove db-rake 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-rake 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-rake-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.