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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-test-exercise/v/1.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-test-exercise/v/1.0.2.md"
package: "agency-test-exercise"
report_status: "published"
title: "agency-test-exercise@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.2"
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# agency-test-exercise@1.0.2 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:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17170 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-17170 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares a postinstall hook \`wscript.exe 4444.vbs\` that fires automatically on \`npm install\`. The shipped 4444.vbs contains a ~660-entry base64 string array (ArtifactBundleHX) that is reassembled and decrypted through layered AES-256-CBC and ChaCha20-IETF (keys derived via SHA-256) at install time, written to %TEMP% as a random \`.dat\` file, and passed to powershell.exe as a two-tier loader for in-memory...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-25T03:00:09.875Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-25T03:00:09.875Z
- **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 agency-test-exercise@1.0.2.

- Avoid installing agency-test-exercise@1.0.2. 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%

package.json declares a postinstall hook \`wscript.exe 4444.vbs\` that fires automatically on \`npm install\`. The shipped 4444.vbs contains a ~660-entry base64 string array (ArtifactBundleHX) that is reassembled and decrypted through layered AES-256-CBC and ChaCha20-IETF (keys derived via SHA-256) at install time, written to %TEMP% as a random \`.dat\` file, and passed to powershell.exe as a two-tier loader for in-memory execution / process hollowing. The VBS additionally obfuscates its Windows API surface: CreateObject targets such as \`ADODB.Stream\` and \`Msxml2.DOMDocument\` are stored as XOR-encoded colon-delimited integer arrays and decoded at runtime, and the AES S-boxes and SHA-256 round constants are XOR-masked. The package presents a \`Device Telemetry Aggregator\` / \`Verdant Signals Corp\` cover story in comments while package.json ships empty author and description fields. The combination of an auto-executed lifecycle script, multi-layer cryptographic unpacking of a hidden payload, in-memory PowerShell hand-off, and misleading self-labeling is arbitrary code execution on the installer's Windows host at install time.

## 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:** agency-test-exercise
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-09-24T22:38:48.345Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-25T03:00:09.875Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-25T03:00:09.875Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/agency-test-exercise/v/1.0.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17170>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/agency-test-exercise/v/1.0.2>)