Malicious code in web-pixels-manager (npm)

[email protected] describes itself as a package for getting IP location and metadata. Its preinstall hook runs `node index.js` on npm install and requests `https://realwbx.com/ip.php?ip=8.8.8.8` with the hardcoded Authorization value `207e4133bd083b9e3e89c5556fc8677e`, which differs from the value in each of the account's other packages. The npm account conx3993 published it on 2026-10-15, one of 9 packages from that account between 2026-09-30 and 2026-10-15 whose preinstall hook calls realwbx.com. --- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: amazon-inspector (2a75cc1a77f4f7dce3f84c9b66aa2613ace8bccab0fffa5587a4a30ce9fdc71a) Package name `web-pixels-manager` typosquats Shopify's scoped `@shopify/web-pixels-manager`; the stated description (`get the IP location and metadata`) is unrelated to that name and the README is a one-line stub. `package.json` declares `preinstall: node index.js`, and `index.js` executes top-level code on `npm install` that performs an HTTPS GET to `https://realwbx.com/ip.php` with a hardcoded `Authorization` bearer token (via `getPublicIPLocation('8.8.8.8')`). The destination is not a Shopify or publisher-matching host. The install-time outbound call allows the operator of realwbx.com to enumerate hosts that installed the package, timestamp them, and correlate them to the hardcoded token, providing a victim check-in channel under a typosquatted name.

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15 Oct 2026 13:01:07 UTC

Source modified

26 Oct 2026 06:45:15 UTC

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26 Oct 2026 07:21:08 UTC

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