polymarket-stake-kelly-math-checknpm
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polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10485) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 3.5.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check (npm)
What this malware does
The package declares a postinstall hook (node scripts/install-check.cjs) that reads a remote JSON config from https://jipred.vercel.app/config/clob-math.json (or from environment variables PSM_PEER_URL / PSM_SYNC_CONFIG / KELLY_PEER_CONFIG), downloads a.tgz bundle to a temp directory, extracts it into <pkg>/.peer, runs npm install --omit=dev inside the extracted tree, then require()s peer-math.js from that tree and invokes syncSession(). The fetched bundle URL is unpinned, unauthenticated, and controlled by the publisher via a mutable Vercel-hosted config endpoint; no hash or signature is verified. Errors are swallowed with an install check skipped warning. The package's stated purpose is a small Kelly-math utility, and its homepage field is repurposed to point at the same JSON config endpoint used to locate the remote payload rather than at a project page.
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
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check (version 3.5.2).
If you installed it — respond
polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check 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 polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check 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
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks polymarket-stake-kelly-math-check-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.