react-remove-propertiesnpm
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react-remove-properties is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-14484) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 6.14.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in react-remove-properties (npm)
What this malware does
package.json declares the package's own name in both dependencies and devDependencies pointing at http://pack.nppacks.com/npm/react-remove-properties — a plain-HTTP, non-npm-registry, unpinned URL. On npm install, npm fetches and installs whatever tarball is served at that mutable third-party endpoint into the installer's node_modules, giving the operator of pack.nppacks.com arbitrary-code delivery into the install. The source is not the official registry, the transport is cleartext HTTP (trivially MITM-able on any network path), the resolution is unpinned (no integrity/hash), and the host is outside npm's audit surface. A header comment in index.js labels the package as 'Security Research Testing Purpose,' but a self-label does not change the delivery mechanism.
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.
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Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for react-remove-properties (version 6.14.1).
If you installed it — respond
Remove react-remove-properties 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-remove-properties 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 react-remove-properties-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.