endpointmapnpm
Malicious code in endpointmap (npm) Remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
What this malware does
endpointmap advertises itself as a REST endpoint registry but exhibits a two-package smuggle pattern. lib/registry.js exports two non-printable byte arrays (_ep of length 36, _p of length 7) annotated as 'Endpoint host segment' / 'Endpoint path segment', with a comment claiming they are 'processed at runtime by the consumer for portability.' Neither array is read anywhere in endpointmap's own code — index.js only exposes the registry object — and the bytes are opaque (XOR-shaped, with no key shipped in this package). At the same time, package.json declares "bytecraft": "*" as a dependency. endpointmap's source never requires bytecraft; the only effect of the declaration is to force installation of whatever bytecraft@latest happens to be at install time. The combination — staged encoded data in this package plus an unpinned, never-imported sibling that can be updated to act as the decoder/runtime — is the canonical 'data here, decoder there' split designed to evade per-package review. An installer of endpointmap is exposed to whatever bytecraft resolves to at install/require time, including future malicious versions, without endpointmap itself ever needing another release.
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for endpointmap (2 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging endpointmap across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove endpointmap 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 endpointmap 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 endpointmap 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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- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks endpointmap-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.