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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/data-format-helper/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/data-format-helper/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "data-format-helper"
report_status: "published"
title: "data-format-helper@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
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# data-format-helper@1.0.1 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:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12039 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package advertises itself as a data-formatting utility but ships a postinstall.js that auto-executes on npm install and runs shell commands to collect installer/CI identity and secrets, then sends them to an attacker-controlled Burp Collaborator subdomain over plain HTTP...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T02:15:08.909Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T02:15:08.909Z
- **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%

The package advertises itself as a data-formatting utility but ships a postinstall.js that auto-executes on npm install and runs shell commands to collect installer/CI identity and secrets, then sends them to an attacker-controlled Burp Collaborator subdomain over plain HTTP. Observed collection includes hostname, whoami/id, sudo -l output, process and network state, GitHub Actions environment (GITHUB\_TOKEN, GITHUB\_REPOSITORY, GITHUB\_ACTOR, RUN\_ID and related), and any environment variables matching KEY|TOKEN|SECRET|NPM\_TOKEN|AWS\_|AZURE|GCP|GITHUB\_TOKEN, each base64-encoded and sent via curl to http://pzs5w7ntzhsnepwk564lyfdci3oucl0a.oastify.com/. The script additionally probes cloud instance-metadata endpoints for AWS, Aliyun, GCP and Tencent and forwards the responses to the same collector. A separate phase probes the internal hostname tst.woa.com and base64-encodes the response body of an internal flag.html before sending it to the collector, indicating targeted reconnaissance against a specific internal (Tencent) environment consistent with a dependency-confusion decoy. The advertised 'data formatting utilities' description and benign color-helper index.js are cover metadata unrelated to the postinstall behavior.

## 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:** data-format-helper
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-07-28T07:03:18.214Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T02:15:08.909Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T02:15:08.909Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/data-format-helper/v/1.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12039>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-format-helper/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/data-format-helper/v/1.0.0>)