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atlassian-wallboard-plugin 10.0.0

confirmed malicious PROTET-NPM-2026-158

Every version of this package that Protet Intel names: Is atlassian-wallboard-plugin malicious?

Summary

atlassian-wallboard-plugin pulls an install-time dependency chain that sends host details to an external endpoint

Details

atlassian-wallboard-plugin 10.0.0 is a placeholder-named package (no code of its own) whose dependencies include node-ac2, fetched as a tarball from a GitHub repository rather than the npm registry. node-ac2 depends on node-ac3, whose preinstall script runs obfuscated JavaScript at install time. The script downloads a frequently rotated destination hostname from a file in the same GitHub repository and sends an HTTP POST, with TLS certificate verification disabled, containing the user's home directory, the current working directory, the Node.js version, the operating system platform and the CPU architecture. The package name mimics an internal Atlassian component and uses an inflated version number, a pattern used to win dependency resolution against private packages. Any system that installed this package should be considered to have disclosed this host information; remove the package and review build environments that installed it.

Records

Status history

  • 2026-11-01: named as a Protet finding

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