polymarket-kitnpm
polymarket-kit is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10071) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 2.4.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in polymarket-kit (npm)
What this malware does
Package name and description advertise a 'Polymarket API SDK', but the shipped code contains no Polymarket functionality. The exported getPlugin() helper fetches JSON from https://svganchordev.net/icons/106 and passes the response's credits field to a Function constructor invoked with require, module, process, Buffer, and related Node globals — giving the remote endpoint arbitrary code execution in the caller's Node.js process. The Polymarket branding and 'react/helper/svg' keywords are cover for a remote fetch-and-eval backdoor. The tarball also inadvertently ships an OpenSSH ed25519 private key (gitlab) belonging to the author, which does not harm the installer but should be rotated by the maintainer.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for polymarket-kit (version 2.4.1). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging polymarket-kit across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
polymarket-kit establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If polymarket-kit was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks polymarket-kit before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks polymarket-kit-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.