react-adparsernpm
Advisory published Updated
react-adparser is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2025-191581) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 2.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in react-adparser (npm)
What this malware does
The package react-adparser was found to contain malicious code.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for react-adparser (version 2.0.1).
If you installed it — respond
Remove react-adparser 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.
Did it already run?
If react-adparser 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 react-adparser-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.