MalwarePublished 12 Nov 2025

teate-thy-sonic-hiuti (npm) · Malicious Code

Affects teate-thy-sonic-hiutiSource GCVE Database

Malicious package : remove teate-thy-sonic-hiuti and rotate any secrets on hosts that installed it.

Data as of 12 Nov 2026, 21:43 UTC

Classification

Malicious package

Published to npm · OSV MAL-2025-180470

What to do

Remove teate-thy-sonic-hiuti from every project, lockfile and image that pulls it in. Treat any host that installed it as compromised: rotate the credentials, tokens and keys it could read, from a clean machine.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
npmteate-thy-sonic-hiuti	Affected–	Fixed in–

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Description

The npm package 'teate-thy-sonic-hiuti' is part of a malicious campaign linked to the tea.xyz token reward system. It contains autopublish scripts that automatically generate and publish derivative packages with randomized names. These scripts modify package metadata to remove private flags and alter version numbers, enabling continuous republishing. The campaign aims to inflate developer reputation scores and pollute the npm registry with numerous variants, some with Indonesian-themed names.

Impact

The impact includes pollution of the npm package registry with numerous malicious or derivative packages, manipulation of developer reputation scores within the tea.xyz token reward system, and potential erosion of trust in the npm ecosystem. There is no indication of direct exploitation or compromise of user systems, but the campaign undermines package integrity and ecosystem reliability.

Defensive guidance

Users and maintainers should avoid installing packages related to the tea.xyz token reward campaign and monitor for suspicious autopublish scripts in npm packages. Registry maintainers may consider removing or blocking these packages to prevent further pollution. Since this is a campaign behavior rather than a software vulnerability, standard vulnerability patching does not apply.

Summary

This threat involves a malicious npm package 'teate-thy-sonic-hiuti' associated with the tea.xyz token reward campaign. The package includes autopublish scripts (auto.js, autopublish.js, autopublish2.js, autopublish3.js) that automatically create and publish derivative packages with randomized names to manipulate developer reputation scores. The malicious payload modifies package.json files by removing private flags and changing version numbers, facilitating repeated publication of variants. This activity results in registry pollution and potential abuse of the npm ecosystem's trust mechanisms.

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