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Malicious package

photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptunenpm

Advisory published Updated

photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2025-188690) that executes malicious code on install. Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune (npm)

MAL-2025-188690
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune

What this malware does

This package appears to be part of the tea.xyz token reward campaign that flooded npm. These packages typically contain autopublish scripts (auto.js, autopublish.js, autopublish2.js, autopublish3.js) designed to automatically generate and publish derivative packages with randomized names to inflate developer reputation scores for tea protocol token rewards. The malicious payload modifies package.json to remove private flags, changes version numbers, generates random Indonesian-themed package names (some variants are also in English), and continuously republishes variants to pollute the npm registry.

Malicious versions

all versions

Every published version of this package is considered malicious — remove it entirely.

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

88b6074683fa16520e5fd63fcb6e27cbd091b49c4588f9809e04d8af25c35823

Detection & response playbook

Malicious package

  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune (all published versions).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    Remove photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.

  3. Did it already run?

    If photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune on npm has been identified as a malicious package (all published versions flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks photon-transhumanism-cosmicray-neptune-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.

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