x6842179305npm
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x6842179305 is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-14303) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in x6842179305 (npm)
What this malware does
Package x6842179305 ships a main entry (1.js) that invokes the Function constructor over a custom-encoded, keyed/XOR-decoded byte buffer, causing an opaque payload to execute whenever the module is required or imported. A sibling file (ui.js) contains a matching custom-alphabet decoder feeding another opaque byte stream. The runtime behavior of the decoded payload — including any network destinations, credential access, or filesystem writes — is not statically determinable because the code has no readable source form. The package name is a numeric burner-style identifier with no documented purpose, no README describing functionality, and no legitimate library shape (no exported API surface, no source tree). A Function()-constructor executor over a custom-encoded byte table on module load has no benign engineering rationale and matches the obfuscated-loader / dropper pattern used to hide install- or import-time payloads from static review.
Malicious versions
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for x6842179305 (2 malicious versions).
If you installed it — respond
x6842179305 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 x6842179305 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 x6842179305-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.