Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Laravel Packages Deploy PHP RAT

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Supply Chain Attack: Malicious Laravel Packages Deploy PHP RAT

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

A supply chain attack has targeted the PHP developer community via Packagist, where threat actor nhattuanbl published malicious packages disguised as Laravel utility libraries. These packages contain a fully functional remote access trojan (RAT), allowing attackers to gain silent and persistent control over systems that install them.

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Timeline

2026-03-04

Malicious packages discovered on Packagist

2026-03-04

Threat actor nhattuanbl identified as the source

Date unknown

Attackers gain control over affected systems

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Threat Graph

8 entities, 12 inferred relationships (STIX 2.1).

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Technique (4)

Malware
Supply Chain Attack
Trojan
T1195 - Supply Chain Compromise

Malware (1)

PHP RAT

Affected Platform (3)

Laravel
Packagist
PHP

Relationships

Malware targets Laravel
Malware targets Packagist
Malware targets PHP
Supply Chain Attack targets Laravel
Supply Chain Attack targets Packagist
Supply Chain Attack targets PHP
Trojan targets Laravel
Trojan targets Packagist
Trojan targets PHP
T1195 - Supply Chain Compromise targets Laravel
T1195 - Supply Chain Compromise targets Packagist
T1195 - Supply Chain Compromise targets PHP

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