hardhat-roofnpm
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hardhat-roof is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17509) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 2.21.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in hardhat-roof (npm)
What this malware does
The package presents itself as the pino logger — README, docs/, index.d.ts and LICENSE are copied from pinojs/pino and keywords advertise 'fast, logger, stream, json' — but the package name is 'hardhat-roof', the description references unrelated vulnerability-management functionality, and the author points to jsonspack.com rather than the pino maintainers. The top of index.js executes require('./lib/config'), which loads lib/config.js: a 4,373,384-byte file containing obfuscator.io-style string-array obfuscation with a self-rotating decoder (n['push'](n['shift']()) loop gated by a parseInt sum), hex-escaped character lookups, and dozens of single-letter indirection functions. The remaining lib/ files are small and consistent with pino; only config.js is the oversized opaque blob, and the real pino has no such file. Any consumer that imports or requires this package therefore executes several megabytes of opaque code in-process at load time. The combination of a doppelganger cover story cloned from a popular logger, a mismatched package name and author, and a reachable load-time execution path into a heavily obfuscated multi-megabyte payload is the shape of a trojanized typosquat/doppelganger delivering attacker-controlled code into installer processes.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for hardhat-roof (version 2.21.0).
If you installed it — respond
hardhat-roof is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove hardhat-roof, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If hardhat-roof 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks hardhat-roof-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.