--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botfork" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/botfork/v/0.2.34.md" package: "botfork" report_status: "published" title: "botfork@0.2.34 npm security report" verdict: "suspicious" version: "0.2.34" --- # botfork@0.2.34 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 **Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 12 finding(s) warrant review before installing. - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Product-default install policy:** Warn - **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse - **Selected version:** 0.2.34 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions. AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. Installation automatically executes a helper described as a dry run. Its default path builds and launches a detached local SSH service, then connects to it. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-11T20:11:33.150Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-11T20:12:33.179Z - **Download time:** 510 ms - **Static scan time:** 58 ms - **AI review time:** 59460 ms - **Total time:** 60029 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:** Installation automatically executes a helper described as a dry run. Its default path builds and launches a detached local SSH service, then connects to it. - **Trigger:** npm installation invokes postinstall. - **Impact:** An install can modify user configuration and cache directories, create a detached process, and invoke Go and SSH without an explicit botfork command. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, lib/postinstall.js, BotFork Shortcut.txt - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-11T20:12:33.179Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** Install-time helper execution starts a local compiled service and writes user-home state. - **Rationale:** The claimed dry-run behavior contradicts the helper's default execution path, producing meaningful install-hook risk. Static source does not establish theft, remote payload execution, or a package-controlled network endpoint. - **Files touched:** BotFork Shortcut.txt, server-src/, ~/.config/botfork/hostkey, ~/.cache/botfork/botfork, ~/.cache/botfork/server.log, ~/.cache/botfork/server.pid - **Network endpoints:** 127.0.0.1:2222 ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Suspicious - **Confidence:** 91.0% - **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn - **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability - **False-positive risk:** Medium - **Evidence for warning:** Install lifecycle hooks run a Node postinstall script., Postinstall launches the bundled helper with BOTFORK\_PROBE enabled despite calling it a dry run., The helper's default path builds a Go binary, starts a detached service, and attempts an SSH connection., The helper writes host-key, cache, log, and PID state under the user's home directories. - **Evidence against:** The default service address is loopback and the Go server rejects unauthenticated non-loopback binds., No source path inspected sends harvested credentials or files to a package-controlled endpoint., Tool cloning is behind an explicit user command. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to botfork@0.2.34. - Review the evidence and your use of botfork@0.2.34 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report. - Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe. ## Public findings ### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node lib/postinstall.js ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.preinstall = node lib/preinstall.js ``` ### 3. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node lib/postinstall.js ``` ### 4. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs. ### 5. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 6. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 7. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 8. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 9. 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. ### 10. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** bin/botfork.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 = botfork@0.2.37 matchedPath = bin/botfork.js matchedIdentity = npm:Ym90Zm9yaw:0.2.37 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 11. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** lib/postinstall.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 = botfork@0.2.37 matchedPath = lib/postinstall.js matchedIdentity = npm:Ym90Zm9yaw:0.2.37 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 12. Medium: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 91.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install lifecycle hooks run a Node postinstall script. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json "scripts": { "preinstall": "node lib/preinstall.js", "postinstall": "node lib/postinstall.js", "preuninstall": "node lib/preuninstall.js", "postuninstall": "node lib/postuninstall.js" }, ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preinstall, preuninstall, postuninstall - **Dependencies:** 0 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 0 - **Development dependencies:** 0 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0 ## Package metadata - **Package:** botfork - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 0.2.34 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-11T18:47:01.237Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-09-08T15:41:50.694Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-12T13:04:05.764Z - **Known versions:** 16 - **Latest version:** 0.2.39 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Connect to the botfork TUI server over SSH — nothing to install locally. - **Maintainers:** openmbstore - **Keywords:** ssh, tui, terminal, botfork - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.17.0 - **Artifact files:** 20 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 383,990 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [Issues]()