workflow-postgres-setupnpm
workflow-postgres-setup is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5715) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in workflow-postgres-setup (npm)
What this malware does
The package advertises itself as a Postgres/workflow setup helper but ships no library code — the declared main entry index.js is absent from the tarball. Its only functional code is bin/run.js, which on invocation (via npx workflow-postgres-setup or the installed bin) reads process.env.INIT_CWD || process.cwd(), takes the basename, and POSTs it as JSON to a hardcoded third-party endpoint at https://deepbounty.dd06-dev.fr/cb/33d63669-244d-4409-9fba-eb1d32d10cc1. The package's own description self-identifies as a dependency-confusion / npx-typosquat proof-of-concept. Project directory names can themselves be sensitive (internal codenames, customer names, unreleased product identifiers), and the beacon attributes the leak to a specific tracking ID controlled by the operator of the callback domain. The generic, functionality-promising name is consistent with typosquat / dependency-confusion bait targeting developers searching for Postgres setup tooling.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for workflow-postgres-setup (version 1.0.0). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging workflow-postgres-setup across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
workflow-postgres-setup establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If workflow-postgres-setup was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks workflow-postgres-setup before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks workflow-postgres-setup-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.