paysafe-nodenpm
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paysafe-node is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10171) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in paysafe-node (npm)
What this malware does
The package presents itself as a Node.js client for the Paysafe REST API but its main entry ships an XOR-obfuscated stealer. When any advertised SDK method (payments.create/get, customers.create/get) is invoked, a delayed callback runs an exfiltration routine that enumerates process.env, selects every variable whose name contains 'key', 'secret', 'token', 'pass', 'auth', or 'api', truncates each value to 100 characters, and POSTs those values together with the machine hostname, OS username, current working directory, timestamp, package identifier, and a prefix of the caller-supplied Paysafe apiKey to a hardcoded remote host on TCP/8443. The destination hostname, HTTP verb, header names, env-var selector substrings, and sandbox-detection tokens are all hidden via Buffer XOR against a hardcoded 16-byte base64 key, with the hostname additionally char-shifted and reversed. Before firing, a guard aborts exfiltration when os.cpus().length < 2 or when the hostname/username matches obfuscated sandbox/VM/analysis tokens, so the payload only ships from real developer and CI machines. There is no configuration option, README disclosure, or opt-out for this network activity, and the destination is unrelated to the installer's Paysafe account. Name-impersonation of the legitimate Paysafe SDK, credential-shaped env scraping well beyond a payments SDK's needs, string obfuscation covering every identifier, and analyst-host evasion together satisfy the active-attack shape.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for paysafe-node (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
paysafe-node 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 paysafe-node 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 paysafe-node-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.