hubert-verify-primary-email-amnpm
hubert-verify-primary-email-am is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12391) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 20.4.6). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in hubert-verify-primary-email-am (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] presents itself as an email-verification library but on require of index.js loads init.js, which reconstructs remote hostnames from split string arrays (joining to oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev and subdomains of dl.well1.site) to evade static inspection. It selects a platform-specific asset, downloads bytes over HTTPS with a DNS-TXT-record chunked-fetch fallback (base64 chunks assembled from TXT records under c.<domain>), writes the binary to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story names such as.cache / dotnet_diag_, chmods it 0755, and detached-spawns it via spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', fp+' &'], {detached:true}) (or cmd on Windows). There is no hash or signature verification, the destinations are unrelated to the declared email-verification purpose, and the delivery hosts are attacker-mutable. Requiring the package yields arbitrary native code execution on the installer's machine under the installer's user account.
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.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
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 hubert-verify-primary-email-am (version 20.4.6). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging hubert-verify-primary-email-am across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove hubert-verify-primary-email-am 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 hubert-verify-primary-email-am 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 hubert-verify-primary-email-am 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 hubert-verify-primary-email-am-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.