uploader-frontendnpm
Advisory published Updated
uploader-frontend is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12491) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 9.9.11). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in uploader-frontend (npm)
What this malware does
The package's scripts.install runs node index.js, which loads ./lib/core and, on npm install, collects the installer's OS username (via os.userInfo().username), hostname (os.hostname()), and current working directory basename, encodes them as a subdomain, and issues a dns.resolve4 lookup against the hardcoded attacker domain oob.sl4x0.xyz — a DNS out-of-band beacon that exfiltrates installer identity. The require targets (dns, os, process), the API names (userInfo, username, hostname, cwd, resolve4), and the destination domain are reconstructed at runtime from String.fromCharCode numeric arrays to hide the destination and the APIs used. Package name and README advertise uploader-frontend / enterprise utilities and validation, but the auto-executed code implements no such functionality — only the beacon. The author email [email protected] shares the domain of the exfil host, and homepage points at an unrelated project (github.com/slaxorg/nms-dashboard-js), indicating publisher-controlled attacker infrastructure.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for uploader-frontend (version 9.9.11).
If you installed it — respond
uploader-frontend 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 uploader-frontend 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 uploader-frontend-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.