sodel-pychnpm
sodel-pych is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6062) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.0.121, 1.0.122). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in sodel-pych (npm)
What this malware does
The package ships several files whose names and contents suggest a non-trivial install-time and runtime footprint: a postinstall script (scripts/postinstall-agent.mjs) that performs network I/O including a ping/GET against an identifier-bearing endpoint, a relay server (dist/relayServer.js) with multiple ping invocations, a Discord relay upload module (dist/discordRelayUpload.js) combining base64 decoding with POST calls, a Hugging Face credentials module (dist/hfCredentials.js) using base64-decoded values, and a secret-scan startup audit (dist/secretScan/agentStartupAudit.js) that fetches huggingface.co endpoints. The combination of a postinstall agent, a Discord upload path, base64-encoded data in deployment defaults, and credential/secret handling is consistent with either (a) a legitimate ML/agent tooling package that talks to Hugging Face and uses Discord for notifications, or (b) a credential-relay/exfiltration tool. The evidence available here is keyword-level pattern matches without traced execution paths, so intent cannot be determined from this data alone. A human reviewer should inspect scripts/postinstall-agent.mjs to confirm what runs on npm install, dist/discordRelayUpload.js to confirm whether installer-side data is shipped to Discord, and dist/hfCredentials.js to confirm whose credentials are read.
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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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 sodel-pych (2 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging sodel-pych across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
sodel-pych 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 sodel-pych 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 sodel-pych 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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O3 blocks sodel-pych-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.