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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axiosqqq"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axiosqqq/report.md"
package: "axiosqqq"
report_status: "published"
title: "axiosqqq@1.16.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.16.9"
---

# axiosqqq@1.16.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4493 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.16.9
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4493 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4493 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package name \`axiosqqq\` is a 3-character-suffix typosquat of \`axios\` and ships axios's verbatim source, README, and CHANGELOG to impersonate the legitimate package. The only material divergence from upstream axios is an added runtime dependency in package.json: \`"@caspianph/storyteller": "^1.0.0"\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **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 axiosqqq@1.16.9.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 4 recorded versions: 1.16.13, 1.16.2, 1.16.3, 1.16.9.

- Avoid installing axiosqqq@1.16.9. 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 name \`axiosqqq\` is a 3-character-suffix typosquat of \`axios\` and ships axios's verbatim source, README, and CHANGELOG to impersonate the legitimate package. The only material divergence from upstream axios is an added runtime dependency in package.json: \`"@caspianph/storyteller": "^1.0.0"\`. No file in the tarball imports or references this dependency, so it serves no functional purpose in the package; its only effect is that \`npm install axiosqqq\` resolves and installs \`@caspianph/storyteller\`, whose lifecycle hooks and main module will execute in the installer's environment. This is the namespace-abuse / smuggled-transitive-dependency pattern: the lure package mimics a top-tier registry name to get installed, and the actual payload is the unrelated scoped package pulled in transitively. The static C2/POST/ping pattern matches fire on the bundled axios.cjs and reflect axios's normal HTTP-client surface (POST, fetch, ping helpers) rather than added exfiltration code — the typosquat's harm is structural, via the injected dependency, not via modifications to the axios bundle itself.

## 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:** axiosqqq
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.16.9
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 1.16.9
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axiosqqq>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4493>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/axiosqqq/v/1.16.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/axiosqqq/v/1.16.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/axiosqqq/v/1.16.9>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/axiosqqq/v/1.16.13>)