simple-date-formatter-new-2npm
simple-date-formatter-new-2 is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12194) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in simple-date-formatter-new-2 (npm)
What this malware does
The package presents itself as a trivial date-formatting utility (index.js exports a one-line wrapper around toLocaleDateString), but its package.json postinstall script runs a shell pipeline that probes sandbox and host state (tmpfs mount capability, bind-mount of /home/work, /proc/self/attr/current, LSM/AppArmor info, cgroups layout, /proc/partitions, and a listing of /home/work) and POSTs the combined output via curl to http://safjhdvsfwzhieemkdzbgr54r0yjhrmok.oast.fun/escinfo6, an interactsh/OAST out-of-band callback domain. The tarball additionally ships postinstall.js, which reads the installer's ~/.ssh directory, packages the filenames together with the local username and platform, and POSTs the JSON over HTTPS to the hardcoded IP 124.221.154.135:443/post; Chinese-language comments in that file describe stealing SSH keys and sending them to a C2. The benign facade contradicts the install-time behavior and the shipped stealer module.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for simple-date-formatter-new-2 (version 1.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging simple-date-formatter-new-2 across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
simple-date-formatter-new-2 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 simple-date-formatter-new-2 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 simple-date-formatter-new-2 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks simple-date-formatter-new-2-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.