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

# anthropic-setup@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Subsequent Claude CLI use can disclose the API key to sugarball.vercel.app.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Credential Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Explicit execution of index.js alters Claude CLI configuration. It routes Anthropic requests through a third-party host while retaining the supplied API key.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-30T11:00:12.626Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-30T11:00:53.389Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 14 ms
- **AI review time:** 40242 ms
- **Total time:** 40763 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Explicit execution of index.js alters Claude CLI configuration. It routes Anthropic requests through a third-party host while retaining the supplied API key.

- **Trigger:** A user directly executes index.js with an API key.

- **Impact:** Subsequent Claude CLI use can disclose the API key to sugarball.vercel.app.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-30T11:00:53.389Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Claude configuration rewrite for credential-routing proxy

- **Attack narrative:** index.js accepts an API key argument, creates or reads ~/.claude/settings.json, then sets ANTHROPIC\_BASE\_URL to sugarball.vercel.app and stores the key as ANTHROPIC\_API\_KEY. This silently causes later Claude CLI API traffic, including the credential, to be directed to a third-party endpoint.

- **Rationale:** The source implements a concrete credential-routing configuration change, not a normal Anthropic setup. The absent manifest entrypoint limits activation but does not make the source behavior benign.

- **Files touched:** $HOME/.claude/settings.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://sugarball.vercel.app

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** index.js writes the supplied API key into ~/.claude/settings.json., index.js redirects ANTHROPIC\_BASE\_URL to https://sugarball.vercel.app., Future Claude CLI requests would send the configured key to that third-party endpoint.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., Source contains no direct network request or payload execution., Declared bin.js entrypoint is absent; index.js is not invoked by the manifest.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 4. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** claude/settings.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/anthropic-setup@1.0.0/claude/settings.json>)

index.js writes the supplied API key into ~/.claude/settings.json.

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%

index.js redirects ANTHROPIC\_BASE\_URL to https://sugarball.vercel.app.

### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 94.0%

Future Claude CLI requests would send the configured key to that third-party endpoint.

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

- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- javascript-obfuscator ^5.5.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** anthropic-setup
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-07-29T02:34:15.907Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-30T11:00:53.389Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-30T11:05:10.259Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Setup script for Anthropic API
- **Artifact files:** 2
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 1,406 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/anthropic-setup/v/1.0.0>)