---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/appsignal/v/9999.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/appsignal/v/9999.0.0.md"
package: "appsignal"
report_status: "published"
title: "appsignal@9999.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "9999.0.0"
---

# appsignal@9999.0.0 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:** 9999.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12512 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package name \`appsignal\` shadows the legitimate \`@appsignal/\*\` scope and is published at version \`9999.0.0\`, a version-number pattern used to outrank private/internal dependencies during resolution. A \`preinstall\` script runs automatically on \`npm install\` and issues an HTTP GET to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint \`http://75.119.137.232:31337/depconfuse\`, carrying the installer's \`os.hostname()\`,...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T14:30:21.087Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T14:30:21.087Z
- **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%

Package name \`appsignal\` shadows the legitimate \`@appsignal/\*\` scope and is published at version \`9999.0.0\`, a version-number pattern used to outrank private/internal dependencies during resolution. A \`preinstall\` script runs automatically on \`npm install\` and issues an HTTP GET to the hardcoded bare-IP endpoint \`http://75.119.137.232:31337/depconfuse\`, carrying the installer's \`os.hostname()\`, \`os.userInfo().username\`, \`process.cwd()\`, \`npm\_config\_registry\`, and CI repository-slug environment variables (\`GITHUB\_REPOSITORY\`, \`CI\_PROJECT\_PATH\`, \`BUILD\_REPOSITORY\_NAME\`, \`BITBUCKET\_REPO\_FULL\_NAME\`, \`TRAVIS\_REPO\_SLUG\`, \`DRONE\_REPO\`, \`BUILDKITE\_PIPELINE\_SLUG\`, \`CIRCLE\_PROJECT\_REPONAME\`, \`JOB\_NAME\`) as query parameters. The endpoint path \`/depconfuse\`, the bare-IP destination, the \`9999.0.0\` version, and the shadowing of an established scope indicate a dependency-confusion reconnaissance probe designed to identify internal build systems that resolve the public name over an intended private package.

## 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:** appsignal
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 9999.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-02T19:32:14.374Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T14:30:21.087Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T14:30:21.087Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 9999.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/appsignal/v/9999.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12512>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/appsignal/MAL-2026-12512.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/appsignal/v/9999.0.0>)