fcefi-wdojs-utilnpm
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fcefi-wdojs-util is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-19142) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in fcefi-wdojs-util (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] ships a loader in index.js that reads an undeclared _bz numeric array (~1000 bytes) from its own package.json, zlib-inflates it, and executes the resulting JavaScript via the Function constructor on every require of the package. The loader is wrapped in an IIFE that explicitly short-circuits when any of CI, GITHUB_ACTIONS, GITLAB_CI, TRAVIS, CIRCLECI, or SANDBOX are set in the environment, so the payload only runs on developer and production hosts and stays inert in scanning environments. Adjacent to the loader, lib/native.pkg_config is a 2,890,302-byte file containing only hex characters with no printable strings and no relation to native code or pkg-config, consistent with an encrypted stage-2 payload decrypted by the inflated bytecode. The combination — executable code smuggled inside the manifest as a non-standard field, require-time Function()-based execution, deliberate CI/sandbox evasion, and a large opaque hex blob shipped as a misleadingly named config file — is a multi-stage dropper with no legitimate utility function.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for fcefi-wdojs-util (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
Remove fcefi-wdojs-util 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 fcefi-wdojs-util 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks fcefi-wdojs-util-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.