sc-geeksquad-core

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 9999.0.0`

## Source: amazon-inspector (2fd2458d8a5843f57187868a2c244a376dd3d2daef420d3c564c775ef6a2782a)
[email protected] declares a preinstall script `node callback.js` that runs automatically on `npm install`. The script collects the installer's hostname (`os.hostname()`), OS username (`os.userInfo().username`), current working directory (`process.cwd()`), configured npm registry (`npm_config_registry`), and a set of CI repository-slug environment variables (GITHUB_REPOSITORY, CI_PROJECT_PATH, BUILD_REPOSITORY_NAME, BITBUCKET_REPO_FULL_NAME, TRAVIS_REPO_SLUG, DRONE_REPO, BUILDKITE_PIPELINE_SLUG, CIRCLE_PROJECT_REPONAME, JOB_NAME), then sends them via HTTP GET to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint `http://75.119.137.232:31337/depconfuse` as query parameters. The placeholder version `9999.0.0` combined with a generic scoped-sounding name is the canonical dependency-confusion reconnaissance shape: the package is published to public npm to intercept internal-package name resolution and beacon back which private-namespace builds are vulnerable to substitution.

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (2094a7f35be1c723c65b36c32884f2f0e99840ef0bc090a1fbcb1f5568b93ef2)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'sc-geeksquad-core' @ 99.9.1 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/4614f1c2b1d30b763c168a1463be4c0b19d9adf2/osv/malicious/npm/sc-geeksquad-core/MAL-2026-12435.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/4614f1c2b1d30b763c168a1463be4c0b19d9adf2/osv/malicious/npm/sc-geeksquad-core/MAL-2026-12435.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/sc-geeksquad-core/v/9999.0.0
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b711d7c76f98b5044512e8c851547e8a05b2f959/osv/malicious/npm/sc-geeksquad-core/MAL-2026-12435.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/sc-geeksquad-core/v/99.9.1
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-46pw-5vw5-769w

Compromised versions (1)

• = 9999.0.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.