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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/evilpostinstall/v/4127000.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/evilpostinstall/v/4127000.0.1.md"
package: "evilpostinstall"
report_status: "published"
title: "evilpostinstall@4127000.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "4127000.0.1"
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# evilpostinstall@4127000.0.1 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:** 4127000.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-15625 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's postinstall lifecycle hook pipes the output of \`env\` through \`nc\` to a host reconstructed at install time from the package version string via \`cut -b 2-4\` and \`cut -b 5-\`. For version 4127000.0.1 the destination decodes to 127.0.0.1:888; the sibling artifact evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz uses the same slicing scheme to target 192.168.1.100...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **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's postinstall lifecycle hook pipes the output of \`env\` through \`nc\` to a host reconstructed at install time from the package version string via \`cut -b 2-4\` and \`cut -b 5-\`. For version 4127000.0.1 the destination decodes to 127.0.0.1:888; the sibling artifact evilpostinstall-192.168.1.100.tgz uses the same slicing scheme to target 192.168.1.100. On \`npm install\`, the full installer environment - including any CI secrets, tokens, and API keys present in environment variables - is transmitted to the reconstructed host over TCP port 888. package.json also declares a self-referencing dependency \`evilpostinstall: ^4192168.1.100\`, whose version field encodes a second destination IP under the same scheme, causing npm to resolve and install an additional package instance whose own postinstall repeats the exfiltration against that address. The destination is deliberately hidden from static scanners by being reconstructed from the version field rather than written as an IP literal, and no source files are shipped - the manifest itself is the payload.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 1
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- evilpostinstall ^4192168.1.100 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** evilpostinstall
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 4127000.0.1
- **License:** BSD-2-Clause
- **Version published:** 2026-08-31T15:37:20.694Z
- **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:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,105 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/evilpostinstall/v/4127000.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15625>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/evilpostinstall/v/49.13.4074225>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/evilpostinstall/v/4127000.0.1>)