---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/5.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/5.0.0.md"
package: "@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color"
report_status: "published"
title: "@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@5.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.0.0"
---

# @cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@5.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented execution and exposure of cloud credential-related environment values to localhost:8000.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 5.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installation automatically executes shell commands. It launches an application and forwards selected cloud-related environment values to a local network listener.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-24T12:35:17.901Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-24T12:35:44.377Z
- **Download time:** 763 ms
- **Static scan time:** 5 ms
- **AI review time:** 25707 ms
- **Total time:** 26476 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation automatically executes shell commands. It launches an application and forwards selected cloud-related environment values to a local network listener.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall during package installation

- **Impact:** Unconsented execution and exposure of cloud credential-related environment values to localhost:8000.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, src/postinstall.js, src/index.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-24T12:35:44.377Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** child-process execution and environment-variable exfiltration

- **Attack narrative:** Installing the package triggers src/postinstall.js. That script uses child\_process.exec to open Calculator and runs env filtered for AWS, GCP, and GOOGLE names, piping the resulting values to netcat at localhost:8000. The README disclaimer does not provide installation-time consent or remove the credential-harvesting behavior.

- **Rationale:** The postinstall hook contains concrete, unconsented command execution and credential-related environment harvesting with network forwarding. The benign runtime export does not mitigate this install-time payload.

- **Files touched:** package.json, src/postinstall.js

- **Network endpoints:** localhost:8000

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs postinstall via node src/postinstall.js., src/postinstall.js launches Calculator during installation., src/postinstall.js collects AWS/GCP/GOOGLE environment variables., src/postinstall.js pipes collected values to nc localhost 8000.

- **Evidence against:** src/index.js is a small browser background-color helper., README.md discloses this is a malware-like security demo.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@5.0.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/postinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color@5.0.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node src/postinstall.js
```

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-23T16:42:58.880Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-24T12:35:44.377Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-24T12:35:44.473Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 7.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** THIS CONTAINS MALWARE FOR DEMO PURPOSES, USE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
- **Author:** Chris
- **Keywords:** background, color, green, dom, css
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 4,325 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@cy4dev/cydemo-bg-color/v/5.0.0>)
- [Homepage](<https://gitlab.com/cy4n/npm-cydemo-bg-color#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://gitlab.com/cy4n/npm-cydemo-bg-color/issues>)