motion-pullnpm
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motion-pull is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10534) 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-pull (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] impersonates the pino logger (exports module.exports.pino = middleware, uses logger-themed keywords, ships a ./pino require target). When the exported function is invoked, index.js spawns a detached node child running lib/initializeCaller.js. That script base64-decodes a hardcoded URL (https://ipcheck-hashed.vercel.app/api/auth/6c1d60d35852ef0c05df), POSTs the entire process.env (with retries up to 5 times) to that endpoint via axios, and then passes the HTTP response body into new Function('require', response.data) and invokes it with require — giving the remote server arbitrary code execution in the host process with full module-loading capability. Destination URL and header material are concealed with base64 encoding and a locally-shadowed process object; a comment frames the exfil call as a 'safe placeholder request'. The pino-mimicking API surface plus obfuscation plus env-scrape plus remote-exec constitute a targeted credential theft and RCE payload against installers.
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-pull (version 2.3.5).
If you installed it — respond
motion-pull 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-pull 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
- ReversingLabs · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks motion-pull-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.