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Malicious package

travel-core-typings-reducersnpm

Advisory published Updated

travel-core-typings-reducers is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12486) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 20.7.8). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in travel-core-typings-reducers (npm)

MAL-2026-12486
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall travel-core-typings-reducers

What this malware does

On require() of the package, index.js loads ext.js which downloads a platform-specific binary from runtime-assembled Cloudflare workers.dev hostnames (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, cf100-416, cf101-adf, cf103-070) with a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback against subdomains of dl.well1.site (tin/ldr/win.dl.well1.site) that reassembles base64 chunks into executable bytes. The fetched payload is written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under disguised names (.cache<rand> on Unix, dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe on Windows), chmod +x'd, and spawned detached via spawn("/bin/sh",["-c",fp+" &"],{detached:true}) or spawn("cmd",...). C2 hostnames are assembled at runtime via ["oob-work","er.cf103-07","0.workers.","dev"].join("") to defeat static string search. The package presents itself as a base framework typings module and ships an unreferenced lib/telemetry.js plus DISABLE_TELEMETRY/ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT/DO_NOT_TRACK opt-out env vars as cover; the DNS-TXT path carries an inline comment describing it as chunked transfer for environments blocking HTTPS.

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.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
20.7.8

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

3f8a32e0a10123bde764e059abea762d4b0574d57d35e6bd3e92e4d96cdeb245
a0c5ac14d5ca2237a244551a8668e466e4f83d359a930dc35e57543405e4c14c

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for travel-core-typings-reducers (version 20.7.8).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    travel-core-typings-reducers 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.

  3. Did it already run?

    If travel-core-typings-reducers 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. travel-core-typings-reducers on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 20.7.8 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-014718GHSA-f4c8-g3cf-mgc9

References

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks travel-core-typings-reducers-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

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