nabisconpm
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nabisco is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6412) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.0.1-poc). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in nabisco (npm)
What this malware does
Package self-describes as a security PoC for dependency confusion targeting an internal HubSpot module name. On install, postinstall.js prints a confirmation line ('nabisco resolved from registry.npmjs.org and executed') along with the host's name (os.hostname()) and a timestamp to stdout. No network egress, credential access, filesystem persistence, or remote payload fetch is present in the current version — the postinstall is purely a local log statement. The harm shape is the namespace squat itself: any HubSpot build that misroutes a request for the internal 'nabisco' module to the public registry will execute this package's code at install time, and any future republish under the same name could add a real payload while keeping the same install path. Routing to human review for a takedown / dispute decision rather than blocking on confirmed installer-side harm.
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 nabisco (version 0.0.1-poc).
If you installed it — respond
nabisco 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 nabisco 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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References
Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
- ReversingLabs · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks nabisco-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.