OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4661 confirms this npm version as malicious. react-tracked-tony impersonates the popular react-tracked package: package.json sets `name: react-tracked-tony`, `author: Daishi Kato`, and `homepage: https://react-tracked.js.org` (the real project's site), while the repository URL points at an unrelated user account (github.com/daltonchristiano060-gif/react-tracked-tony.git). The package re-exports the real react-tracked API to appear functional...
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OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV
Summary
Malicious code in react-tracked-tony (npm)
Details
react-tracked-tony impersonates the popular react-tracked package: package.json sets `name: react-tracked-tony`, `author: Daishi Kato`, and `homepage: https://react-tracked.js.org` (the real project's site), while the repository URL points at an unrelated user account (github.com/daltonchristiano060-gif/react-tracked-tony.git). The package re-exports the real react-tracked API to appear functional. On require/import in Node, endex.js fetches a JavaScript payload from https://almondco.online/api/droppers/38jmkse over HTTPS with TLS verification explicitly disabled (`rejectUnauthorized: false`) and executes the response body in-process via `new Function('require', text + tail)(require)`, handing the remote code full Node `require` access. Before fetching, endex.js enumerates ~20 cloud/CI/sandbox indicators (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Travis, Vercel, Netlify, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda/ECS/Batch, Azure, GCP Cloud Run/App Engine) and reads /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor to detect Amazon/Google/Microsoft/QEMU/OpenStack hypervisors, aborting on match — a deliberate anti-analysis gate so the payload only fires on real developer/operator machines. Combination of typosquat + impersonated author metadata + import-time remote-code-exec from a non-publisher domain + TLS verification disabled + sandbox evasion is an unambiguous supply-chain attack.
Decision reason
OpenSSF Malicious Packages via OSV confirms react-tracked-tony@2.0.1 as malicious (MAL-2026-4661): Malicious code in react-tracked-tony (npm)