🛡️ MAL-2026-10093 — is-real-odd

Malicious code in @andrewstory18/is-real-odd (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

@andrewstory18/is-real-odd impersonates the widely-used is-odd package by copying its README, author, and repository metadata verbatim, but ships an additional obfuscated payload (index.min.js) wired into package.json as a postinstall script. The payload uses an _0x string-array dispatcher to hide its behavior; once deobfuscated, it issues an http.request POST to the hardcoded bare IP 144.172.91.84 on port 3000 at path /hello. This fires automatically on npm install, establishing an attacker-controlled callback from any installer machine and enabling tracking of successful infections and staging of follow-on payloads. The destination is unrelated to the legitimate is-odd publisher (jonschlinkert) and is not a registry, CDN, or known SDK endpoint.