Which versions of driftpin are malicious?

The following npm versions of driftpin are flagged malicious: 1.0.0. Treat any of these as compromised.

How do I remediate driftpin if I installed it?

driftpin 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.

I already installed driftpin — how do I know if it already compromised me?

If driftpin 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.

Is driftpin part of a known attack campaign?

Yes — driftpin is associated with the IN-MAL-2026-009606 campaign. Packages in the same campaign often share infrastructure and payloads, so check whether any related packages are also in your dependency tree.

How do I find driftpin across my projects, lockfiles, and CI pipelines?

Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for driftpin (version 1.0.0).

Malicious package

driftpinnpm

Advisory published Jul 10, 2026Updated Jul 10, 2026

driftpin is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10114) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in driftpin (npm)

MAL-2026-10114

Immediate action

Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.

npm uninstall driftpin

What this malware does

[email protected] advertises itself in the README as an SVG sanitization/minification/conversion utility, but the only actual export from index.js is an undocumented function getPlugin. When a consumer calls getPlugin()(), the returned closure performs an HTTP GET against https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/3P9BF — an anonymous, mutable paste host — parses the JSON response, and passes the response's model field directly to eval. Whoever controls the paste can change its contents at any moment to run arbitrary JavaScript inside any process that loads driftpin and invokes the export. The advertised SVG functionality is a cover story; the documented API surface (sanitizeSVG/minifySVG/saveSVG/convertSVGToPNG) is not actually exported. Additionally, index.js require('request') without declaring request in package.json dependencies, indicating the backdoor was grafted onto an unrelated skeleton.

Malicious versions

1 flagged

1.0.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

bb2b2601b0e4e6659a7fd042e4f227e3d22880c51355a793dbdc2e42d39805d5

Detection & response playbook

Backdoor / remote access

Find it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for driftpin (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
driftpin 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 driftpin 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. driftpin on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-009606

References

npmjs.com

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks driftpin-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.

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