Which versions of ezdiscordbots are malicious?

The following npm versions of ezdiscordbots are flagged malicious: 1.0.2. Treat any of these as compromised.

How do I remediate ezdiscordbots if I installed it?

Remove ezdiscordbots 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.

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

If ezdiscordbots 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 ezdiscordbots part of a known attack campaign?

Yes — ezdiscordbots is associated with the IN-MAL-2026-015892 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 ezdiscordbots across my projects, lockfiles, and CI pipelines?

Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for ezdiscordbots (version 1.0.2).

Malicious package

ezdiscordbotsnpm

Advisory published Aug 5, 2026Updated Aug 5, 2026

ezdiscordbots is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13377) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 1.0.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in ezdiscordbots (npm)

MAL-2026-13377

Immediate action

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

npm uninstall ezdiscordbots

What this malware does

package.json declares a postinstall script sudo node install.js that runs install.js with root privileges on the installer's machine. Both install.js and index.js are heavily obfuscated (js-virtualizer / obfuscator.io family): hex-mangled identifiers, rotated string array, control-flow flattening, anti-debug regex checks, and a base64/percent-decoded string reconstructor. index.js concatenates four decoder-produced fragments and passes the result through Buffer.from(dora, 'base64').toString() at module load to materialize executable content that is not visible in the shipped source. The declared runtime dependencies include js-virtualizer (obfuscator) and node-linux (systemd/init daemon registration) — neither has any connection to the advertised Discord bot purpose, and node-linux provides the primitives to install a persistent root-level daemon. The combination of sudo-elevated postinstall, obfuscated self-decoding payload, and a Linux service-installer dependency is the canonical install-time RCE / persistence shape; installing this package causes attacker-controlled code to execute as root on the installer host.

Malicious versions

1 flagged

1.0.2

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

a715452291e1bd779802f51dc90eca91740307e0bee7b9e2ca94f6f863f6a921

Detection & response playbook

Malicious package

Find it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for ezdiscordbots (version 1.0.2).
If you installed it — respond
Remove ezdiscordbots 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 ezdiscordbots 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. ezdiscordbots on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.2 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-015892

References

npmjs.com

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks ezdiscordbots-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.

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