--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axios-test-one" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axios-test-one/report.md" package: "axios-test-one" report_status: "published" title: "axios-test-one@1.19.2 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.19.2" --- # axios-test-one@1.19.2 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented remote content is dropped to \`C:\\Windows\\1.txt\`, enabling a staged payload delivery chain. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Block by default - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Staged Payload Carrier - **Selected version:** 1.19.2 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) LPM AI independently confirmed malicious behavior in this version and supplies the Firewall block. AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. Source inspection confirms a concrete runtime remote-download-and-write chain, not merely a scanner similarity signal. The absence of lifecycle hooks does not mitigate the malicious behavior triggered by ordinary API use. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0% - **Started:** 2026-07-16T09:32:35.107Z - **Finished:** 2026-07-16T09:34:23.526Z - **Download time:** 512 ms - **Static scan time:** 2108 ms - **AI review time:** 105795 ms - **Total time:** 108419 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:** A normal Axios GET request triggers a hidden telemetry path. The shipped bundle downloads a remote file and writes it to a Windows system directory. - **Trigger:** Runtime GET request through Axios, including the default request method. - **Impact:** Unconsented remote content is dropped to \`C:\\Windows\\1.txt\`, enabling a staged payload delivery chain. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, lib/core/Axios.js, lib/helpers/telemetry.js, dist/browser/axios.cjs, dist/esm/axios.js, dist/node/axios.cjs - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-07-16T09:34:23.526Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Hidden telemetry dependency invokes a remote payload downloader and filesystem write. - **Attack narrative:** The package modifies Axios request handling so every GET request calls an undeclared telemetry action. Its shipped browser and ESM bundles embed a helper that fetches a file from a third-party GitHub repository and synchronously writes it as \`C:\\Windows\\1.txt\`. This is unrelated to an HTTP client’s advertised function, is remotely controlled, and occurs without consent or an explicit user setup command. - **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms a concrete runtime remote-download-and-write chain, not merely a scanner similarity signal. The absence of lifecycle hooks does not mitigate the malicious behavior triggered by ordinary API use. - **Files touched:** lib/core/Axios.js, lib/helpers/telemetry.js, dist/browser/axios.cjs, dist/esm/axios.js - **Network endpoints:** https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThoSuperstarDev/axios-http/main/lib/env/te.txt ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** \`lib/core/Axios.js\` calls telemetry on every GET request, including the default method., \`lib/helpers/telemetry.js\` invokes \`telemetry-metrics\` without user opt-in., \`dist/browser/axios.cjs\` embeds code that fetches a remote payload from GitHub., The embedded payload writes fetched bytes to \`C:\\Windows\\1.txt\` via \`fs.writeFileSync\`., The same injected downloader appears in \`dist/esm/axios.js\`. - **Evidence against:** No install, preinstall, or postinstall hook is declared., No shell execution, credential harvesting, or AI-agent configuration mutation was found in inspected source. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to axios-test-one@1.19.2. - Avoid installing axios-test-one@1.19.2. 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. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs. ### 2. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 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. Low: Obfuscated - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 60.0% Package source has low-confidence obfuscation-like patterns. ### 7. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 8. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 9. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 90.0% Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean. ### 10. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** dist/node/axios.cjs - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = axios-test-one@1.18.7 matchedPath = dist/node/axios.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:YXhpb3MtdGVzdC1vbmU:1.18.7 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 11. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** lib/utils.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = axios-test-one@1.18.4 matchedPath = lib/utils.js matchedIdentity = npm:YXhpb3MtdGVzdC1vbmU:1.18.4 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 12. Medium: Secret Pattern - **Category:** Secrets - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** README.md - **Public source:** [View source]() Hardcoded password in README.md Public source snippet (untrusted): ```markdown patternName = generic_password severity = medium line = 895 matchedText = password...ret' ``` ### 13. Medium: Secret Pattern - **Category:** Secrets - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** README.md - **Public source:** [View source]() Hardcoded password in README.md Public source snippet (untrusted): ```markdown patternName = generic_password severity = medium line = 1079 matchedText = passwo... ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare - **Dependencies:** 5 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 5 ### Published dependency entries - follow-redirects ^1.16.0 (Dependency) - form-data ^4.0.6 (Dependency) - https-proxy-agent ^5.0.1 (Dependency) - proxy-from-env ^2.1.0 (Dependency) - telemetry-metrics ^0.2.1 (Dependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** axios-test-one - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.19.2 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-07-15T19:03:23.850Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-07-14T18:01:49.024Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T03:00:06.238Z - **Known versions:** 15 - **Latest version:** 1.19.7 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js - **Author:** Jay - **Keywords:** xhr, http, ajax, promise, node, browser, fetch, rest, api, client - **Artifact files:** 87 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,767,716 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]() - [OpenSSF/OSV advisory]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]() - [PACKAGE]()