---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@testsmith/api-spector-agent/v/0.9.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@testsmith/api-spector-agent/v/0.9.7.md"
package: "@testsmith/api-spector-agent"
report_status: "published"
title: "@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "0.9.7"
---

# @testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 16 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.9.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The flagged entry point is a private monitoring runner: it requires a user-configured APP\_URL and token, polls that service, executes its configured monitors, and reports results there. The reviewed credential-provider and VM code is consistent with retrieving configured secrets and running monitor scripts; the scanner’s claimed fixed gateway and obfuscated loader were not substantiated in the inspected source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-04T09:52:32.427Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-04T09:53:21.465Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6931 ms
- **AI review time:** 41586 ms
- **Total time:** 49038 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:** No attack was identified; the package runs a private API monitoring agent against a configured service.

- **Trigger:** Running the CLI entry point; it exits unless APP\_URL and an agent or runtime token are configured.

- **Impact:** Configured monitor traffic and results are sent to the user-selected service; no unrelated collection or fixed credential redirect was identified.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-04T09:53:21.465Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The agent polls APP\_URL for due monitors, runs their configured requests and scripts, and posts results back to APP\_URL. Secret-provider code retrieves requested secrets from their configured providers.

- **Rationale:** The flagged entry point is a private monitoring runner: it requires a user-configured APP\_URL and token, polls that service, executes its configured monitors, and reports results there. The reviewed credential-provider and VM code is consistent with retrieving configured secrets and running monitor scripts; the scanner’s claimed fixed gateway and obfuscated loader were not substantiated in the inspected source.

- **Network endpoints:** ${APP\_URL}/api/monitor-runtime/due, ${APP\_URL}/api/monitor-runtime/${id}/result, https://secretsmanager.${region}.amazonaws.com/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest identifies dist/index.cjs as both the CLI entry point and package main., The runner requires APP\_URL and an agent or runtime token, then polls that configured service., The runner sends monitor results to the same configured APP\_URL., AWS secret retrieval targets the region-specific AWS Secrets Manager host., Inline secret injection uses API\_SPECTOR\_SECRETS and API\_SPECTOR\_SECRET\_ENV\_MAP.

- **Evidence against:** No install lifecycle scripts are declared in the manifest., The runner’s network destination is supplied by the user through APP\_URL; no fixed unofficial gateway was identified., The AWS credential flow signs requests to secretsmanager.\<region\>.amazonaws.com for Secrets Manager., The inspected VM execution is part of running configured request scripts in the monitoring runner.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7.

- Review the evidence and your use of @testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7 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.

## Public findings

### 1. Medium: Unsafe Vm Context
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 68.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Package source executes code through a VM context API.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L247: }, m7.utcOffset = function() {
L248: return 15 * -Math.round(this.$d.getTimezoneOffset() / 15);
L249: }, m7.diff = function(r64, d9, l9) {
...
L356: * @see DOMParser.SupportedType.isHTML
L357: * @see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html IANA MimeType registration
L358: * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Wikipedia
...
L586: /**
L587: * @private
L588: * @param {function (Node):boolean} predicate
...
L993: function _xmlEncoder(c8) {
L994: return c8 == "<" && "&lt;" || c8 == ">" && "&gt;" || c8 == "&" && "&amp;" || c8 == '"' && "&quot;" || "&#" + c8.charCodeAt() + ";";
L995: }
```

### 2. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L247: }, m7.utcOffset = function() {
L248: return 15 * -Math.round(this.$d.getTimezoneOffset() / 15);
L249: }, m7.diff = function(r64, d9, l9) {
...
L356: * @see DOMParser.SupportedType.isHTML
L357: * @see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html IANA MimeType registration
L358: * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Wikipedia
...
L586: /**
L587: * @private
L588: * @param {function (Node):boolean} predicate
...
L993: function _xmlEncoder(c8) {
L994: return c8 == "<" && "&lt;" || c8 == ">" && "&gt;" || c8 == "&" && "&amp;" || c8 == '"' && "&quot;" || "&#" + c8.charCodeAt() + ";";
L995: }
```

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 4. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 5. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. High: Credential Redirect Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Manifest-reachable source sends a prompted API credential to a fixed unofficial gateway and persists the redirection.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-reachable source captures an API credential, sends it to a fixed unofficial gateway, and persists that redirection in agent or shell configuration.
dist/index.cjs:
"Authorization",
"Proxy-Authorization",
get baseUrl() {
return this.baseUrl?.origin;
this[kProxyHeaders]["proxy-authorization"] = `Basic ${opts.auth}`;
this[kProxyHeaders]["proxy-authorization"] = opts.token;
this[kProxyHeaders]["proxy-authorization"] = `Basic ${Buffer.from(`${decodeURIComponent(username)}:${decodeURIComponent(password)}`).toString("base64")}`;
const existProxyAuth = headers && Object.keys(headers).find((key) => key.toLowerCase() === "proxy-authorization");
```

### 7. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L247: }, m7.utcOffset = function() {
L248: return 15 * -Math.round(this.$d.getTimezoneOffset() / 15);
L249: }, m7.diff = function(r64, d9, l9) {
...
L356: * @see DOMParser.SupportedType.isHTML
L357: * @see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html IANA MimeType registration
L358: * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Wikipedia
...
L586: /**
L587: * @private
L588: * @param {function (Node):boolean} predicate
...
L993: function _xmlEncoder(c8) {
L994: return c8 == "<" && "&lt;" || c8 == ">" && "&gt;" || c8 == "&" && "&amp;" || c8 == '"' && "&quot;" || "&#" + c8.charCodeAt() + ";";
L995: }
```

### 8. High: Obfuscated Payload Loader
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L247: }, m7.utcOffset = function() {
L248: return 15 * -Math.round(this.$d.getTimezoneOffset() / 15);
L249: }, m7.diff = function(r64, d9, l9) {
...
L356: * @see DOMParser.SupportedType.isHTML
L357: * @see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/html IANA MimeType registration
L358: * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML Wikipedia
...
L586: /**
L587: * @private
L588: * @param {function (Node):boolean} predicate
...
L993: function _xmlEncoder(c8) {
L994: return c8 == "<" && "&lt;" || c8 == ">" && "&gt;" || c8 == "&" && "&amp;" || c8 == '"' && "&quot;" || "&#" + c8.charCodeAt() + ";";
L995: }
```

### 9. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 10. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/index.cjs
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 6430451
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. Medium: Oversized Cli Entrypoint
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Package contains an oversized executable-looking CLI entrypoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = dist/index.cjs
kind = oversized_cli_entrypoint
sizeBytes = 6430451
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 14. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_trace_path_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = @testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.6
matchedPath = dist/index.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.9.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.7/dist/index.cjs>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = c771225742e83165
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @testsmith/api-spector-agent@0.9.6
matchedPath = dist/index.cjs
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:0.9.6
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 1
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## 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:** @testsmith/api-spector-agent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.9.7
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-11-04T09:49:45.994Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-07T19:22:05.217Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-04T14:02:02.842Z
- **Known versions:** 35
- **Latest version:** 0.9.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** API Spector private runner: monitor internal/local APIs the cloud cannot reach, with no inbound connections.
- **Maintainers:** rdekleijn
- **Keywords:** api-spector, monitoring, uptime, private-runner, agent, contract-testing
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,433,236 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** Yes
- **Provenance:** https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@testsmith/api-spector-agent/v/0.9.7>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/testsmith-io/api-spector>)
- [Homepage](<https://api-spector.dev/>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/testsmith-io/api-spector/issues>)
