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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/emoji-prints-fancy/v/5.6.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/emoji-prints-fancy/v/5.6.4.md"
package: "emoji-prints-fancy"
report_status: "published"
title: "emoji-prints-fancy@5.6.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.6.4"
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# emoji-prints-fancy@5.6.4 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:** 5.6.4
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14298 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package advertises itself as a colorized logger, but dist/index.js requires./logger, which at module load AES-256-CBC-decrypts a hardcoded ciphertext using a hardcoded passphrase, salt and IV (pbkdf2Sync with sha1, 100000 iterations) and passes the resulting plaintext to child\_process.spawn with { shell: true, windowsHide: true, stdio: 'ignore' } via a \_resolveConfig -\> \_runSystemTask path invoked by a top-level...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T10:45:04.657Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T10:45:04.934Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 22 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 277 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 3
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** emoji-prints-fancy
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.6.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-19T09:49:41.709Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T10:45:04.934Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T10:45:04.934Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 5.6.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A pretty logger with colorized output, log levels, and timestamps.
- **Author:** magcd
- **Maintainers:** richross717
- **Keywords:** logger, emoji-prints-fancy, logging, colorized, pretty, formatter
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,002 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/emoji-prints-fancy/v/5.6.4>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14298>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/emoji-prints-fancy/v/5.6.4>)