easypanel-appnpm
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easypanel-app is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-15895) 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 easypanel-app (npm)
What this malware does
The package's preinstall lifecycle script runs automatically on npm install and collects installer identity (os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd()) along with the names of CI-related environment variables. The collected data is JSON-serialized, base64url-encoded, chunked into DNS label form, and exfiltrated to a hardcoded third-party out-of-band collector at *.oob.lyomeri.com via both a dns.lookup() call and an HTTP GET to easypanel-app.daco3v4q6f49egu1ds1gwjnsjb88s5kcp.oob.lyomeri.com. The name mimics the legitimate Easypanel project and the shape (preinstall + host/username/cwd + OOB DNS+HTTP beacon to a per-package subdomain) is a dependency-confusion reconnaissance beacon, disclosing installer identity and internal-package-name existence to a third party regardless of any 'benign canary' self-label.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for easypanel-app (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
easypanel-app 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 easypanel-app 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks easypanel-app-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.