MAL-2026-17710 Malicious code in pxnpm (npm)

pxnpm 7.0.0-beta.6, 7.0.0-beta.8 and 7.0.0 published 2026-10-06 by user nfjbill are a 10-file, 16 KB launcher for a native executable that is not contained in the package. The postinstall script bin/install.cjs calls ensureNative in dist/download.cjs, which downloads a 17-21 MB Brotli archive for...

Malicious code in pxnpm (npm)

pxnpm 7.0.0-beta.6, 7.0.0-beta.8 and 7.0.0 published 2026-10-06 by user nfjbill are a 10-file, 16 KB launcher for a native executable that is not contained in the package. The postinstall script bin/install.cjs calls ensureNative in dist/download.cjs, which downloads a 17-21 MB Brotli archive for...

Malicious code in pxnpm (npm)

pxnpm 7.0.0-beta.6, 7.0.0-beta.8 and 7.0.0 published 2026-10-06 by user nfjbill are a 10-file, 16 KB launcher for a native executable that is not contained in the package. The postinstall script bin/install.cjs calls ensureNative in dist/download.cjs, which downloads a 17-21 MB Brotli archive for...

Malicious Package

Overview pxnpm is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship...