ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscribernpm
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ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-15545) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 45.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber (npm)
What this malware does
package.json line 11 declares a dependency whose key equals the package's own name (ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber) and whose value is a bare HTTPS URL to a non-registry host: https://repo.securityctrl.com/ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber. On npm install, npm fetches whatever tarball that URL returns and installs it, running any lifecycle scripts contained in it, with no version pin, no integrity hash, and no signature check. The shipped index.js is an inert stub, so the manifest itself is the entire delivery mechanism: control of repo.securityctrl.com equals code execution on the installer's machine. The self-name dependency-confusion shape (dependency key equals the package's own name, implausibly high version 45.0.0) is consistent with an attempt to win resolution against an internal package of the same name.
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
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber (version 45.0.0).
If you installed it — respond
Remove ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber 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 ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks ux-metrics-client-interaction-subscriber-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.