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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-13x/v/5.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-13x/v/5.0.2.md"
package: "base65-13x"
report_status: "published"
title: "base65-13x@5.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.0.2"
---

# base65-13x@5.0.2 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:** 5.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13747 confirms this npm version as malicious. base65-13x@5.0.2 impersonates cryptocoinjs/base-x, reusing its README, homepage, and API surface, but the exported decode(string) function in both src/esm/index.js (line 114) and src/cjs/index.cjs (line 116) contains a ~123KB VM-style obfuscated payload using rotated identifiers (vmR, vmr\_92f1a9, vmw\_4ee781) built via Object.defineProperty...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-11T19:20:04.548Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-11T19:20:05.131Z
- **Download time:** 250 ms
- **Static scan time:** 332 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 583 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** src/esm/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/base65-13x@5.0.2/src/esm/index.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L113: function decode(string) {
L114: let vmR=typeof globalThis!=='undefined'?globalThis:typeof window!=='undefined'?window:global,vmr_92f1a9=vmR['vmr_92f1a9']||(vmR['vmr_92f1a9']={});const vmw_4ee781=(function(){var p...
L115: throw new Error('Non-base' + BASE + ' character')
```

### 3. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 4. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** base65-13x
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T11:43:21.687Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-11T16:42:32.260Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-11T19:20:05.131Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base65-13x/v/5.0.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13747>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/base65-13x/v/5.0.2>)