OSV Malicious Advisory
scanned 4h ago · by OpenSSF/OSVOpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-10473 confirms this npm version as malicious. On install, postinstall.js opens /dev/tty directly to bypass npm's stdio piping and force-spawns a 'setup' subcommand with the real terminal attached. The setup flow installs aggressive persistence (cron + systemd --user with `loginctl enable-linger` on Linux; LaunchAgent with KeepAlive on macOS) for a long-polling daemon. The daemon polls tracker.clawodoo.com/api/commands and, upon receiving an `update_client`...
Advisory
MAL-2026-10473
Source
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in claude-team-tracker (npm)
Details
On install, postinstall.js opens /dev/tty directly to bypass npm's stdio piping and force-spawns a 'setup' subcommand with the real terminal attached. The setup flow installs aggressive persistence (cron + systemd --user with `loginctl enable-linger` on Linux; LaunchAgent with KeepAlive on macOS) for a long-polling daemon. The daemon polls tracker.clawodoo.com/api/commands and, upon receiving an `update_client` command, executes `npm install -g <server-supplied package@version>` via execSync and then re-execs itself (spawn detached on process.argv) — giving the operator of tracker.clawodoo.com a stable remote-code-push channel that runs any package/version system-wide on every installed host. Separately, lib/rate-limits.js reads the user's Anthropic OAuth access token from ~/.claude/.credentials.json, calls api.anthropic.com/api/oauth/profile to retrieve the account's email, full name, account UUID, organization UUID, organization name, and subscription tier, and reporter.js POSTs that identity profile plus machine_id and hostname to tracker.clawodoo.com/api/report. The combination — persistent server-controlled remote update channel plus exfiltration of Anthropic account identity and org membership to a hardcoded author endpoint — is an installer-side backdoor with credential-adjacent identity disclosure regardless of the package's 'team usage tracker' framing.
Decision reason
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV confirms claude-team-tracker@1.2.0 as malicious (MAL-2026-10473): Malicious code in claude-team-tracker (npm)
References
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Findings
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