streak-day-primitivesnpm
streak-day-primitives is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12463) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in streak-day-primitives (npm)
What this malware does
The package advertises itself as dependency-free calendar-day arithmetic, but index.mjs contains top-level code that runs on import. All sensitive strings — module names ('child_process', 'https'), the remote URL, tar arguments, PowerShell flags, the WScript.Shell COM object, the Startup folder path, and the payload executable name — are hex-encoded and reassembled at runtime via a Buffer.from(s,'hex').toString() helper (_d + _k table) to hide the payload from static review. When the host is Linux with WSL_DISTRO_NAME set and /mnt/c is reachable, the code fetches a tarball from https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/dp8hbvocjd2fpza/helper.tar.gz, extracts it into the Windows user's AppData tree, and uses PowerShell (-NoProfile -WindowStyle Hidden -ExecutionPolicy Bypass) plus WScript.Shell CreateShortcut to drop a.lnk pointing at the extracted RenameMe.exe into the Windows user's Startup folder. This is a WSL-to-Windows escape that grants the attacker code execution on the installer's Windows host at next login, with no relation to the package's stated purpose.
Malicious versions
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for streak-day-primitives (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 streak-day-primitives across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove streak-day-primitives 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 streak-day-primitives 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 streak-day-primitives 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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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks streak-day-primitives-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.