turing-sdknpm
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turing-sdk is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-4696) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.1.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in turing-sdk (npm)
What this malware does
package.json declares turing-code as an HTTPS tarball dependency at https://turing.tap365.org/v1.1.2/turing-code-1.1.2.tgz, bypassing the npm registry entirely. Any npm install turing-sdk resolves and installs that tarball, whose contents are mutable on the author's host and never seen by registry scanners. Per the package's own README, that dependency downloads a turing binary at install. The published index.js main entry is obfuscator.io-style obfuscated (rotated string-array decoder, hex-named identifiers, self-defending IIFE) and acts as a thin wrapper that spawns the sibling turing binary, passing the caller's API keys through env vars (OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, etc.). Default provider presets route requests to *.tap365.org gateway hosts (e.g. grok74.tap365.org). The combination — off-registry mutable tarball source + opaque downloaded binary + obfuscated wrapper that hands user credentials to that binary + author-operated gateway as default routing target — gives the publisher a free channel to ship arbitrary bytes to installers and to receive caller-supplied API keys.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for turing-sdk (version 1.1.3).
If you installed it — respond
turing-sdk 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 turing-sdk 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.
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References
Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks turing-sdk-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.