zluri-ad-connectornpm
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zluri-ad-connector is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6910) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 9.9.9). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in zluri-ad-connector (npm)
What this malware does
The package declares a preinstall hook (node index.js) that runs automatically on npm install. index.js requires os, dns, https, querystring, and the local package.json, then harvests values from process.env matching a large sensitive-token allowlist (npm, GitHub, AWS, CI tokens, and generic secret/token/password/api_key names) along with os.hostname(), os.userInfo(), os.platform(), homedir, PATH, DNS server list, and package metadata. The collected bundle is POSTed over HTTPS to y543452sgo96xsasfdr72ms4rvxmld92.oastify.com, a Burp Collaborator subdomain used as an attacker-controlled exfiltration sink. The package name zluri-ad-connector combined with the canonical dependency-confusion version 9.9.9 indicates an intentional attempt to shadow a private Zluri internal package name so that CI resolvers pull this public malicious package.
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'zluri-ad-connector' @ 9.9.9 (npm) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for zluri-ad-connector (version 9.9.9).
If you installed it — respond
zluri-ad-connector 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 zluri-ad-connector 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
- OpenSSF: Package Analysis · finder
Detect & block this
O3 blocks zluri-ad-connector-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.