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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.4.md"
package: "@wethenorth12/etherjs"
report_status: "published"
title: "@wethenorth12/etherjs@6.15.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "6.15.4"
---

# @wethenorth12/etherjs@6.15.4 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:** 6.15.4
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12092 confirms this npm version as malicious. @wethenorth12/etherjs@6.15.3 is a typosquat of the ethers package (package name, description, and author string 'ricmoo' all mimic the real package; index.js re-exports the real 'ethers' when available as a benign facade). Its postinstall hook decodes a base64-embedded Node payload into a randomized directory under the OS tmpdir (os.tmpdir()/.npm-\<rand\>/setup.js), executes it via process.execPath with execFileSync,...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T07:30:12.759Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T07:30:12.759Z
- **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%

@wethenorth12/etherjs@6.15.3 is a typosquat of the ethers package (package name, description, and author string 'ricmoo' all mimic the real package; index.js re-exports the real 'ethers' when available as a benign facade). Its postinstall hook decodes a base64-embedded Node payload into a randomized directory under the OS tmpdir (os.tmpdir()/.npm-\<rand\>/setup.js), executes it via process.execPath with execFileSync, and removes the directory 5 seconds later to erase traces. The decoded payload collects hostname, username, home directory, cwd, platform, the full contents of process.env, and the output of the \`env\` command, then transmits the data base64-wrapped in a GET query string to a hardcoded Telegram Bot API endpoint (api.telegram.org/bot\<redacted\>/sendMessage, chat\_id 8969499041). Because process.env in CI/CD and developer environments routinely contains npm/GitHub/cloud credentials and deployment tokens, this constitutes credential theft against the installer.

## 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:** @wethenorth12/etherjs
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 6.15.4
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T07:30:12.759Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T07:30:12.759Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 6.15.4
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.4>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12092>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wethenorth12/etherjs/v/6.15.1>)