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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axious-core/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axious-core/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "axious-core"
report_status: "published"
title: "axious-core@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
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# axious-core@1.0.0 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:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14162 confirms this npm version as malicious. axious-core has an empty index.js and no declared functionality, but its scripts/postinstall.js runs a full install-time dropper. Four opaque byte arrays are XOR-decoded at runtime with the key 'stf2026' to reconstruct a download URL and shell command. The decoded URL points to github.com/bebraz1/... which is fetched to %TEMP%\\main.exe and spawned detached with stdio ignored and windowsHide...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T00:30:11.009Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T00:30:11.009Z
- **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%

axious-core has an empty index.js and no declared functionality, but its scripts/postinstall.js runs a full install-time dropper. Four opaque byte arrays are XOR-decoded at runtime with the key 'stf2026' to reconstruct a download URL and shell command. The decoded URL points to github.com/bebraz1/... which is fetched to %TEMP%\\main.exe and spawned detached with stdio ignored and windowsHide. When executed on WSL/Linux (detected by reading /proc/version and WSL environment variables), a second XOR-decoded bridge command is used to launch the downloaded Windows binary from inside the Linux environment via PowerShell/WSL interop. In parallel, sendInstallMetrics POSTs a JSON payload containing the host platform to a bare IPv4 destination assembled from an array literal ('193','70','34','101').join('.') at 193.70.34.101:20099/vote — an install-success beacon to attacker-controlled infrastructure, with the IP hidden via array join to evade static scanners. The combination of an empty library facade, XOR-obfuscated URLs and shell commands, an unverified remote binary drop-and-execute on install, a WSL escape path, and a bare-IP C2 beacon is a supply-chain dropper.

## 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:** axious-core
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-16T02:56:20.778Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T00:30:11.009Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T00:30:11.009Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/axious-core/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14162>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/axious-core/MAL-2026-14162.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/axious-core/v/1.0.0>)