wml-componentsnpm
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wml-components is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-4730) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 99.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in wml-components (npm)
What this malware does
[email protected] declares preinstall: node poc.js in package.json, so npm install automatically runs poc.js with no consent step. poc.js iterates process.env and captures every variable whose name matches credential-shaped prefixes (TOKEN, AWS, AZURE, NPM, GITHUB, GITLAB, CI_, JENKINS, WALMART, WMT, BUILD, PROJECT, REPO, etc.) with full values, runs host-recon commands (ip a/ipconfig /all, id/whoami /all, os.hostname(), os.platform()), and walks up the directory tree reading the parent project's package.json and CI configuration (.gitlab-ci.yml, .github/workflows, Jenkinsfile, azure-pipelines.yml). The collected bundle is POSTed over HTTPS to a hardcoded interactsh out-of-band callback host (d8a5d9pon5bugoc35cngp9hcregcqyezu.oast.me, poc.js:11 and poc.js:113). The package's main is an empty object — it provides no functionality and exists only to execute the exfiltration payload. The name and version ([email protected]) are shaped as a dependency-confusion lure against an internal Walmart wml-* namespace, with the high version number designed to win resolution over the legitimate internal package. Although the package description claims authorized bug-bounty testing, any developer or CI system outside the intended scope that resolves this name (mistyped dependency, public-mirror automation, untargeted CI) leaks credentials, source-tree metadata, and host identifiers to the attacker-controlled OAST endpoint.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for wml-components (version 99.0.1).
If you installed it — respond
wml-components 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 wml-components 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 wml-components-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.