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Malicious package

zomato-mcpnpm

Advisory published Updated

zomato-mcp is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6270) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 1.0.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in zomato-mcp (npm)

MAL-2026-6270
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall zomato-mcp

What this malware does

On npm install, the package's preinstall lifecycle script runs curl against http://d8s0b82plbq3u5sb2vo0sb3a9obr4yjt7.oast.site/install/<base64(zomato-mcp)> carrying the installer's hostname -f, whoami, current working directory, and a base64-encoded dump of the entire process environment (env | base64 -w0). This fires automatically with no user consent and over plain HTTP. A preuninstall hook similarly leaks the hostname. The oast.site domain is an Interactsh out-of-band collector, used to receive arbitrary attacker-controlled callbacks. The package's advertised functionality is absent: index.js is a 59-byte stub (module.exports = { name: 'zomato-mcp', version: '1.0.0' };), with no MCP server implementation. Combined with the Zomato-namespace impersonation, this is a dependency-confusion / typosquat attack whose only real behavior is install-time recon and credential exfiltration of the entire shell environment (which routinely contains API tokens, CI secrets, cloud credentials, and registry auth tokens).

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1.0.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

a23c3c63a9064636250be7dffa3781af0f9cdfcfd11a8da875be470c6952033e

Detection & response playbook

Credential / info stealer
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for zomato-mcp (version 1.0.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    zomato-mcp 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.

  3. Did it already run?

    If zomato-mcp 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.

Frequently asked questions

No. zomato-mcp on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.0.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-007147

References

Credits

  • Amazon Inspector · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks zomato-mcp-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.

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zomato-mcp (npm) malicious package — MAL-2026-6270 | O3 Security