mastraqqqnpm
mastraqqq is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5913) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 1.13.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in mastraqqq (npm)
What this malware does
Package is published as mastraqqq but bundles a verbatim clone of the legitimate mastra CLI: the embedded package metadata declares name: "mastra", version: "1.13.0" with Mastra's homepage and repository, and the README is the upstream Mastra CLI README. The npm-published manifest under the mastraqqq name (a 3-character-suffix edit of mastra) adds a single unrelated runtime dependency, caspian-day-js@^1.11.22, which is never imported anywhere in the bundled dist/ output. Installing mastraqqq therefore silently pulls caspian-day-js — an attacker-chosen package whose contents are outside this tarball — into the consumer's install graph under cover of a Mastra impersonation. The combination of impersonation (identical bundled name/version/README/code) plus an unexplained, never-referenced extra dependency is the canonical namespace-abuse delivery shape: the lure is the typosquat, the payload arrives via the smuggled dep.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for mastraqqq (version 1.13.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging mastraqqq across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
mastraqqq is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove mastraqqq, 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 mastraqqq 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 mastraqqq 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 mastraqqq-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.