{"id":"MAL-2026-6765","summary":"Malicious code in @marketfront/bannerpopup (npm)","details":"The @marketfront/bannerpopup package is part of a 25-package malicious campaign batch-published to the @marketfront npm scope by npm user 'marketfront' (marketfront@tutamail.com) within a roughly 3-minute window on 2026-07-01. All packages in the campaign were published at version 7.0.0 and use e-commerce/marketing frontend component names as cover.\n\nThe package declares a postinstall hook (node scripts/postinstall.js) that executes heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io-style) code automatically at npm install time. Static analysis of the decoded payload revealed a credential harvester that dynamically requires fs, os, http, https, zlib, path and dns, then reads approximately 20 sensitive credential files including ~/.ssh, ~/.aws/credentials, ~/.kube/config, ~/.docker/config.json, ~/.npmrc, ~/.netrc, ~/.pgpass, ~/.git-credentials, ~/.env and ~/.bash_history. Collected data is exfiltrated via a gzip-compressed HTTPS POST with a custom X-Secret header to the path /api/v1/events, alongside a DNS resolver beacon. The command-and-control host is concealed behind an additional RC4+XOR encryption layer around an embedded configuration blob and was not statically resolved.\n\nThe decoded behavioral payload (module requires, credential-file target list, exfiltration headers and endpoint) is byte-for-byte identical across sampled packages in the campaign. The campaign shares tooling and infrastructure patterns (obfuscated postinstall credential harvester, X-Secret header, /api/v1/events exfiltration path, RC4-concealed C2) with the earlier @emcd-vue campaign, indicating the same actor rotating scopes and disposable maintainer emails.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (ee3a07add5b7558bdb1e62d55cef72d746c5ac6e86051745dfbf4cf8b3307e3e)\nThe package was found to contain malicious code or consuming dependency that contains malicious code\n","modified":"2026-07-08T20:46:56.740396687Z","published":"2026-07-02T00:00:00Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"ee3a07add5b7558bdb1e62d55cef72d746c5ac6e86051745dfbf4cf8b3307e3e","import_time":"2026-07-08T20:32:47.011091129Z","id":"IN-MAL-2026-008582","modified_time":"2026-07-08T20:31:56Z","versions":["7.0.0"],"source":"amazon-inspector"}]},"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://safedep.io/marketfront-dependency-confusion-campaign/"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/@marketfront/bannerpopup/v/7.0.0"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"@marketfront/bannerpopup","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/%40marketfront/bannerpopup"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["7.0.0"],"database_specific":{"indicators":{"package_integrity":[{"filename":"bannerpopup-7.0.0.tgz","hashes":{"sha512_sri":"sha512-NoAg3AX0od6lJ41cLjbCZFZOmKYmXu+cJsVqJCe23ky0o4NOuFGAtGt6gS5xYNZQ5bYLjm/A5lLQjgGnJfNqoQ==","sha1":"0f2a0369906f176b0f58e96de2ca8f1a298fd9ca"}}]},"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/@marketfront/bannerpopup/MAL-2026-6765.json","cwes":[{"cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.","name":"Embedded Malicious Code"},{"cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.","name":"Embedded Malicious Code"}]}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["inspector-research@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"SafeDep","contact":["https://safedep.io"],"type":"FINDER"}]}