type-swapnpm
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type-swap is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-10511) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 3.1.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in type-swap (npm)
What this malware does
The package's declared main entry (index.js) exports a middleware factory that, when invoked by a consumer, spawns lib/caller.js as a detached child process with stdio ignored and unref()'d, concealing it from the parent. lib/caller.js performs an HTTPS GET to https://jsonhosting.com/api/json/e16583b1/raw, extracts a JavaScript payload from a cookie field in the response, and executes it via new Function.constructor("require", s)(require), granting the remote host arbitrary code execution in the installer's Node process with require bound. Additional remote endpoints (https://jsonkeeper.com/b/XRGF3 in lib/caller.js and https://jsonkeeper.com/b/4NAKK in lib/const.js) are stored base64-encoded under a fake process.env object keyed as DEV_API_KEY, staged for the fetched payload. The package name and README impersonate an unrelated logging library.
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
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for type-swap (version 3.1.3).
If you installed it — respond
type-swap is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove type-swap, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If type-swap 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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Credits
- Amazon Inspector · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks type-swap-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.