Malicious code in @emcd-vue/loans (npm)
Part of a coordinated multi-package supply-chain attack impersonating EMCD (emcd.io), a legitimate Russian cryptocurrency exchange and mining pool. The attacker registered the @emcd-vue npm scope to distribute multiple malicious packages posing as internal tooling. This package was published 90 seconds after sibling package @emcd-vue/auth on 2026-06-01 by the same anonymous account ([email protected]).
Confirmed to use identical infrastructure and dropper logic as @emcd-vue/auth: downloads a platform-specific second-stage payload from https://oob.moika.tech/payload/{platform} using X-Secret: l95HdDaz3kQx1Zsg3WxH6HvKANf51RY1, writes it to ~/.emcd-vue_init.js (dot-prefixed hidden file), and executes it as a detached, unref'd process that persists after npm exits. Beacons installation metadata to https://oob.moika.tech/report on completion.
Source: amazon-inspector
On npm install, the declared postinstall script scripts/postinstall.js executes a heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io-style) bundle that collects host identifiers (hostname, username, homedir), the full process.env (with Windows-specific keys such as USERDOMAIN, COMPUTERNAME, APPDATA, LOCALAPPDATA, TEMP, PROGRAMDATA), the tail of shell history, and the contents of a hardcoded list of files under the user's home directory that the package itself never created. The collected object is transmitted to a remote endpoint over HTTP(S) and additionally over a covert DNS channel: the payload is base32-encoded into subdomain labels and issued as dns.Resolver().resolveTxt(...) queries in chunks, bypassing HTTP egress filters. Endpoint hostnames, header names, and API strings are reconstructed at runtime via a shuffled string array with RC4/XOR decoders. Before exfiltrating, the script checks process.argv and NODE_OPTIONS for debugger indicators and performs a timing check to detect sandboxes, skipping the exfil if analysis instrumentation is detected. The package also exhibits dependency-confusion shape: metadata references an internal-looking scope and registry (@emcd-vue, npm.emcd-vue.io, github.emcd-vue.io) while being published to the public npm registry, and dist/index.js re-exports a ../src/index.js that is absent from the tarball, so the package has no functional library surface — the postinstall is its only executable code.
Source: ghsa-malware
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.
