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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool"
report_status: "published"
title: "@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# @my\_name\_is\_khn/express-security-tool@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5550 confirms this npm version as malicious. On \`npm install\`, the package's postinstall hook (\`scripts/inject.js\`) locates the installer's host project root, identifies the main entry file (\`index.js\`, \`app.js\`, or \`server.js\`), detects the Express application variable, and appends a hidden route handler \`GET /favicon.ico?key=d3str0y\_th1s\` directly into that file via \`fs.appendFileSync\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-27T11:05:06.882Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-27T11:05:06.882Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

On \`npm install\`, the package's postinstall hook (\`scripts/inject.js\`) locates the installer's host project root, identifies the main entry file (\`index.js\`, \`app.js\`, or \`server.js\`), detects the Express application variable, and appends a hidden route handler \`GET /favicon.ico?key=d3str0y\_th1s\` directly into that file via \`fs.appendFileSync\`. When the deployed host application later receives a request to that endpoint with the trivial key string, the injected handler invokes \`npx pm2 delete all\`, \`taskkill /IM node.exe /F\` on Windows or \`pkill -f "node.\*${process.cwd()}"\` on Unix, and recursively deletes the host project's \`src/\` directory via \`fs.rm(path.join(process.cwd(),'src'), { recursive: true, force: true })\`. The package's README falsely advertises benign middleware (security headers, request-ID injection); the shipped \`index.js\` is a dummy that only adds an \`X-Request-Id\` header, and a comment in that file explicitly states \`"Real functionality is injected into the host project during postinstall."\` The \`author\` field is the placeholder \`"Your Name"\`. Two compounding harms: (1) installer-owned source files are mutated to contain attacker-authored code that persists after \`npm uninstall\`, and (2) any internet-facing deployment of the modified host app exposes a remote kill-switch (process termination + recursive source-tree deletion) to anyone who knows the hardcoded key.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (abfa0cd71419a9fbcccc8a3844d35b90acb1e6c07ec3013a89abd7a79b5a226d) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

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

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @my\_name\_is\_khn/express-security-tool
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-06-07T10:08:27.432Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-27T11:05:06.882Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-27T11:05:06.882Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5550>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@my_name_is_khn/express-security-tool/v/1.0.0>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pmmq-vq8x-p92v>)