gx-npm-uinpm
gx-npm-ui is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6481) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 99.99.99). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in gx-npm-ui (npm)
What this malware does
Package published at version 99.99.99 under the gx-npm-* namespace, a shape designed to win npm version resolution against private internal packages of the same name. package.json declares postinstall=node beacon.js, which runs unconditionally on npm install. beacon.js collects the installer's hostname, OS username, current working directory, package name, Node version, and the first 80 environment variable names, then exfiltrates them two ways to the hardcoded out-of-band host d8uectoqtvskhftsa940pm3kth3ahdxn4.oast.me: (1) a DNS lookup encoding the collected identifiers as subdomain labels, and (2) an HTTPS GET with a base64-encoded JSON payload in the query string. Any CI/build system or developer machine that resolves this package against the public npm registry leaks host identity and environment-variable names to an attacker-controlled interactsh/OAST endpoint on every install.
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
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for gx-npm-ui (version 99.99.99). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging gx-npm-ui across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
gx-npm-ui is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If gx-npm-ui 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 gx-npm-ui 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 gx-npm-ui-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.