magika-jsnpm
magika-js is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-14247) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 4.1.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in magika-js (npm)
What this malware does
magika-js is a typosquat of Google's magika library. The postinstall lifecycle script collects installer host identifiers (hostname, platform, arch, node version, package name, npm lifecycle event, timestamp) and POSTs them as JSON to the hardcoded endpoint https://ucjtw03t.instances.poc.jchunt.top/magika-js. The beacon fires automatically on npm install with no opt-in and no documented purpose served by the transmission, sending installer machine data to a non-publisher domain. A source.txt pointer to github.com/google/magika reinforces the impersonation of Google's project.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for magika-js (version 4.1.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging magika-js across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
magika-js establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If magika-js 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 magika-js 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 magika-js-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.