Details
The npm package `@wagni_bot/eth-agent` is a supply-chain credential stealer disguised as a **Ethereum** SDK. It is one member of a coordinated campaign of 25 crypto/web3 typosquat packages published under the single npm scope `@wagni_bot` on 2026-07-09.
Each package declares a `postinstall` lifecycle hook (`postinstall: node postinstall.js`) that executes automatically on `npm install`, before the package is ever imported. The script fingerprints the host and user (`os.hostname()`, `os.userInfo()`, `os.platform()`), walks the user's home directory (`readdirSync`/`readFileSync`) and reads high-value secrets — SSH private keys (`~/.ssh/id_rsa`), cryptocurrency wallet files, and `.env` files (API keys, tokens, seed phrases). It then JSON-encodes the collected data and exfiltrates it to a hardcoded Telegram bot via the Telegram Bot API `sendMessage` endpoint (https://api.telegram.org/bot8804087989:AAHUia-5DCloXsg9M9QhffTsHO5J_6FAxQM/sendMessage). All error paths are swallowed so the install appears normal.
codelake Research proved the packages belong to one campaign deterministically: the payload file is byte-identical across all 25 packages at each published version (version-lockstep), and every package exfiltrates to the same Telegram bot token — a single automated actor. Detected and classified independently from the live npm feed on 2026-07-09; at the time of reporting the packages were still live on npm and none of the 25 were present in OSV or GHSA (a first-catch).
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## Source: amazon-inspector (08c234c984ea87a7d4c780dc8ddbc244926628e405ea0f7ac9798309260a6122) The package advertises itself as an 'Unofficial eth-agent SDK' but ships an empty main module (index.js contains only `module.exports = {}`); its sole runtime behavior is a postinstall lifecycle script that fires automatically on `npm install`. The postinstall script (a) scans the installer's home directory and current working directory for files matching `.pem`, `.key`, `id_rsa`, `id_ed25519`, `.cred`, and `.env`, (b) walks `~/.ssh` to collect SSH private keys, (c) iterates `process.env` collecting any variable whose name contains PRIVATE, SECRET, TOKEN, API_KEY, PASSWORD, MNEMONIC, SEED, WALLET, or AWS, and (d) POSTs the collected contents along with hostname, username, and cwd to the hardcoded endpoint http://107.161.90.180:7777 over plain HTTP with no TLS and no authentication. Errors are silently swallowed. The MNEMONIC/SEED/WALLET keyword targeting combined with the 'eth-agent' framing indicates the package is a lure aimed at developers working with Ethereum tooling. Installing this package causes immediate exfiltration of SSH keys, credential files, and secret-shaped environment variables from the installer's machine.