Malware Advisory Detected 2026-10-20 · codelake independent detection
Malware — published immediately. Confirmed supply-chain malware is public at publish time and reported concurrently to the affected registry and the OpenSSF malicious-packages database. There is no coordinated-disclosure window (the maintainer is the attacker). codelake never stores raw payloads — only the detection rule, file:line, and IOCs.
Advisory · CLR-2026-3647

vps-maintenance-paperclip-adapter — malicious npm package, independently detected and OSV-corroborated

vps-maintenance-paperclip-adapter is a malicious npm package that codelake Research independently detected during automated supply-chain scanning, corroborated by MAL-2026-6757 in OSV. The detection signal and affected versions are detailed below.

HighIndependent detectionOSV-corroborated
Summary

codelake's analysis classifies the detection signal as behaviour that executes attacker code automatically at install time (npm/pip install hook).

Affected version(s): 0.1.1, 0.1.2.

How we found it

codelake's per-ecosystem scanners flagged the specimen and the AI-triage judge classified it malicious (recorded signal: postinstall script runs inline code, confidence 0.90).

This is an independent detection by codelake's own scanners and AI-triage pipeline; it is corroborated by MAL-2026-6757 in OSV (codelake was not necessarily the first public reporter for this record).

All analysis is performed at the indicator level on extracted source only — codelake never executes specimens and stores only the detection rule, indicators and analysis, never raw payloads.

Indicators & characteristics
PKGvps-maintenance-paperclip-adapter — npm, 2 affected version(s)
VERAffected versions: 0.1.1, 0.1.2
SIGDetection signal: postinstall script runs inline code
OSVMAL-2026-6757 — corroborating OSV malicious record (osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6757)
Response & guidance
#ActionPriority
01 Remove vps-maintenance-paperclip-adapter immediately from any project, lockfile or CI image that references it, and reject the affected versions (0.1.1, 0.1.2). Act
02 Cross-reference the corroborating OSV record(s) MAL-2026-6757 for the authoritative version range and indicators. Verify

Detected independently by codelake Research · automated per-ecosystem supply-chain scanning + AI-triage, verified at the indicator level on extracted source (no execution). Corroborated by MAL-2026-6757 in OSV. codelake stores only the detection rule, indicators and analysis, never raw payloads.