---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cdf-tag-commander-helper/v/3.6.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cdf-tag-commander-helper/v/3.6.2.md"
package: "cdf-tag-commander-helper"
report_status: "published"
title: "cdf-tag-commander-helper@3.6.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "3.6.2"
---

# cdf-tag-commander-helper@3.6.2 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:** 3.6.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13481 confirms this npm version as malicious. The preinstall lifecycle script in cdf-tag-commander-helper@3.6.2 runs automatically on \`npm install\`. It executes \`whoami\` and \`hostname\`, retrieves the machine's public IP via ifconfig.me, and issues a plain-HTTP GET to a hardcoded Interactsh-style out-of-band callback subdomain (kwphewvexhjbtfduscqybx6q7c862eh0g.oast.fun), passing the three values as query parameters...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.471Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **Download time:** 250 ms
- **Static scan time:** 8 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 259 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cdf-tag-commander-helper@3.6.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/preinstall.js
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cdf-tag-commander-helper@3.6.2/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node scripts/preinstall.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 5. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 6. 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
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** cdf-tag-commander-helper
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 3.6.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T22:57:29.584Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-07T01:35:06.730Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 3.6.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cdf-tag-commander-helper/v/3.6.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13481>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdf-tag-commander-helper/v/3.6.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/cdf-tag-commander-helper/v/3.1.1>)