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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@krentzen/buffer-reverse"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@krentzen/buffer-reverse/report.md"
package: "@krentzen/buffer-reverse"
report_status: "published"
title: "@krentzen/buffer-reverse@1.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.3"
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# @krentzen/buffer-reverse@1.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6536 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6536 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6536 confirms this npm version as malicious. @krentzen/buffer-reverse impersonates the well-known buffer-reverse package (it copies the legitimate author, repo URL, README, and the genuine ~10-line reverse() function at the top of index.js as a cover story). Below that cover, index.js contains two ~46KB heavily obfuscated IIFEs (RC4 string-array decoder, anti-debug, control-flow flattening) that run at require() time...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @krentzen/buffer-reverse@1.0.3.

- Avoid installing @krentzen/buffer-reverse@1.0.3. 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. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

@krentzen/buffer-reverse impersonates the well-known buffer-reverse package (it copies the legitimate author, repo URL, README, and the genuine ~10-line reverse() function at the top of index.js as a cover story). Below that cover, index.js contains two ~46KB heavily obfuscated IIFEs (RC4 string-array decoder, anti-debug, control-flow flattening) that run at require() time. The decoded payload performs an import-time binary dropper sequence: it re-spawns the current Node process with child\_process.spawn(process.execPath, argv, {detached:true, stdio:'ignore', env:{...process.env, \<marker\>:set}}).unref() and returns in the parent (detaches from the consumer / npm install), then in the child issues an HTTPS GET (port 443) with full redirect handling (301/302/303/307/308), streams the response into a file under os.tmpdir(), writes a \<file\>.json sidecar containing {status, size, sha256, downloadedAt}, fs.chmodSync(file, 0o755), and child\_process.spawn(file, \[\], {detached:true, stdio:'ignore', windowsHide:true}).unref(). The fetched binary is unpinned, unsigned, and has no publisher tie-in. Any project that require()s this package executes attacker-controlled native code that survives the parent process.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 2
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @krentzen/buffer-reverse
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A lite module for reverse-operations on buffers
- **Author:** Daniel Cousens
- **Maintainers:** krentzen
- **Keywords:** bits, reverse, buffer, buffer-reverse, crypto, inline, math, memory, performance, reverse
- **Artifact files:** 5
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 98,818 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@krentzen/buffer-reverse>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/crypto-browserify/buffer-reverse>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/crypto-browserify/buffer-reverse/issues>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6536>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/@krentzen/buffer-reverse/MAL-2026-6536.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@krentzen/buffer-reverse/v/1.0.3>)