registry / Data exfiltration / @testrelic/playwright-analytics / 2.14.0

@testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.14.0

Playwright test analytics reporter with E2E navigation tracking, API call capture, network stats, failure diagnostics, and interactive HTML reports

AI Security Review

scanned 1mo ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

This is not established malware, but the unprompted postinstall configuration enables a data-collection and upload path in a consumer project. Warn so consumers can evaluate the cloud telemetry and artifact-upload behavior.

Static reason

One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review

Trigger

npm installation, followed by a configured Playwright test run.

Impact

Test traffic, report data, and enabled artifacts may leave the project under the generated cloud-upload setting.

Mechanism

Postinstall configuration seeding and cloud analytics upload.

AI rationale

Evidence

package.jsonscripts/postinstall.cjsdist/api-fixture.cjsdist/reporter-entry.js.testrelic/testrelic-config.jsontest-results/analytics-timeline.json.testrelic-report

Network endpoints1

platform.testrelic.ai/api/v1

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 86.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with medium false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The automatic postinstall creates a .testrelic configuration in the consumer project and enables cloud upload mode.
The Playwright fixture captures request and response headers and bodies by default, with only selected header and body-field redaction.
The reporter can send collected test data and artifacts to the configured TestRelic cloud endpoint when an API key is present.

Evidence against

The installer skips CI, nested node_modules installs, and existing configuration files.
The generated API-key value is an environment-variable placeholder, not a harvested credential.
No self-dependency, opaque payload download, shell execution at install, or AI-agent control-surface modification was found.
The only child-process use inspected opens the local report URL from the explicit CLI serve command.

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork

Supply chain

HighEntropyStrings

Source & flagged code

11 flagged

package.jsonView file

Lines 103-131json

103 "@testrelic/core": "2.7.0"

104 },

105 "devDependencies": {

106 "@playwright/test": "^1.35.0",

107 "@types/node": "^18.0.0",

108 "typescript": "^5.5.0",

109 "tsup": "^8.0.0",

110 "vitest": "^2.0.0"

111 },

112 "engines": {

113 "node": ">=18"

114 },

115 "license": "MIT",

116 "homepage": "https://testrelic.ai",

117 "publishConfig": {

118 "registry": "https://registry.npmjs.org",

119 "access": "public"

120 },

121 "scripts": {

122 "build": "tsup",

123 "postinstall": "node scripts/postinstall.cjs",

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg · L123

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg · L123

124 "test": "vitest run",

125 "test:watch": "vitest",

126 "test:integration": "vitest run --config vitest.integration.config.ts",

127 "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",

128 "test:e2e": "pnpm run build && npx playwright test --config __tests__/e2e/playwright.config.ts",

129 "test:e2e:validate": "npx tsx __tests__/e2e/validate-report.ts"

130 }

131}

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

package.jsonView on unpkg

dist/reporter-entry.jsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1import {randomUUID,createHash}from'crypto';import {writeFileSync,renameSync,mkdirSync,unlinkSync,existsSync,readFileSync,appendFileSync,readdirSync,statSync,rmSync,createReadStream}from'fs';import {join,dirname,relative,extname,resolve,basename}from'path';import {tmpdir,platform}from'os';import {isValidConfig,createError,ErrorCode,ATTACHMENT_NAME,isTestRelicFilePayload,isTestRelicDataPayload,isValidEndpointUrl,isValidCloudConfig,isValidQueueEntry}from'@testrelic/core'

dist/index.cjsView file

Lines 1-21javascript

1'use strict';Object.defineProperty(exports,'__esModule',{value:true});var crypto=require('crypto'),fs$1=require('fs'),path=require('path'),os=require

dist/cli.cjsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.13.0 matchedPath = dist/cli.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:2.13.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/cli.cjsView on unpkg

dist/api-fixture.cjsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.13.0 matchedPath = dist/api-fixture.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:2.13.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/api-fixture.cjsView on unpkg

dist/fixture.cjsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.13.0 matchedPath = dist/fixture.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:2.13.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

dist/fixture.cjsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

11 flagged · loading source

package.jsonView file

•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs

High

Install Time Lifecycle Scripts

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

package.jsonView on unpkg

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

package.jsonView on unpkg

•scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs

Medium

Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script

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

package.jsonView on unpkg

dist/reporter-entry.jsView file

Findings

10 High4 Medium4 Low

HighInstall Time Lifecycle Scriptspackage.json

HighChild Processdist/reporter-entry.js

HighSame File Env Network Executiondist/reporter-entry.js

HighCommand Output Exfiltrationdist/reporter-entry.js

HighCross File Remote Execution Contextdist/index.cjs

HighTrigger Reachable Command Output Exfiltrationdist/index.cjs

HighSemantic Analysis Limitedpackage.json

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/cli.cjs

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/api-fixture.cjs

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/fixture.cjs

MediumAmbiguous Install Lifecycle Scriptpackage.json

Medium

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.14.0.

See all versions of @testrelic/playwright-analytics for other recorded verdicts.

Review the evidence and your use of @testrelic/playwright-analytics@2.14.0 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

Evidence last updated: 2026-09-15 05:46:29.812Z (UTC).

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Findings

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