popover-anchor-polyfillnpm
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popover-anchor-polyfill is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-17517) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in popover-anchor-polyfill (npm)
What this malware does
The package advertises itself as a 'popover anchor positioning polyfill' but ships thunderboltRegistry.js, which executes an IIFE on module load that spawns shell commands via child_process.execSync (id, whoami, uname -a, ifconfig/ip addr) and reads /etc/hosts, then transmits each command's output together with hostname, Node version, platform, and pid over plain HTTP GET requests to the hardcoded endpoint http://dxpoc.gt.tc/callback.php/ef9ea0e191006f3cc6670720c99c26f3. The require path uses cache-bypass tricks (deleting require.cache entries matching 'thunderboltRegistry' and manually constructing a fresh Module to re-resolve child_process) to defeat mocking or interception. Sibling stub files and a registry-manifest.min.json impersonate Wix thunderbolt internal registry names (thunderboltRegistry, siteAssetsRegistry, documentManagementRegistry, editorRegistry, corvidRegistry) and reference static.parastorage.com, indicating a dependency-confusion lure targeting Wix build pipelines. The declared polyfill purpose does not match the shipped Wix-internal namespace exports, and no popover-polyfill functionality is implemented.
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Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for popover-anchor-polyfill (version 1.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
popover-anchor-polyfill 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 popover-anchor-polyfill 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks popover-anchor-polyfill-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.