ezdiscordbotsnpm
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)
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
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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 ezdiscordbots (version 1.0.2). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging ezdiscordbots across your stack and pipelines.
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 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 ezdiscordbots 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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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.