deposit-limit-fenpm
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deposit-limit-fe is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17769) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 100.100.101, 100.100.102, 100.100.106). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in deposit-limit-fe (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] is published as a 'Deposit limit frontend utilities' library but its main entry (index.js) exports an empty object and ships no real functionality. package.json declares postinstall: node postinstall.js, which require()s a bundled Linux x64 native addon at prebuilds/linux-x64/addon.node inside a silenced try/catch. The addon has no corresponding C/C++ source or binding.gyp in the tarball. On load it reads the environment variables HOSTNAME, USER, npm_package_name, and npm_config_registry, forks, opens a TCP socket to the hardcoded bare IP 64.181.165.115, and sends POST /dc HTTP/1.0 with a form-encoded body h=<hostname>&p=<package>&u=<user>&r=<registry>. The anomalous 100.100.101 version and the explicit exfiltration of npm_config_registry are the fingerprint of a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon targeting an internal/private npm registry package name. Installing this package automatically leaks the installer's hostname, OS username, and private npm registry URL to an attacker-controlled endpoint and executes opaque native code on the installer's machine.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for deposit-limit-fe (3 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
deposit-limit-fe 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 deposit-limit-fe 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 deposit-limit-fe-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.