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figma-to-apl@100.0.0

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AI Security Review

scanned 8d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

An automatic installation hook collects identifying host and project information and transmits it to an external endpoint without a consent gate.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source fingerprint signature matched known malicious package; routed for review

Trigger

npm installation with lifecycle scripts enabled.

Impact

Exposes the installing user's identity, hostname, project location and environment metadata.

Mechanism

setup.js serializes local environment details and sends them through an HTTPS POST, suppressing request errors.

Attack narrative

Installing the package automatically invokes setup.js. The script gathers host, user and working-directory information, then sends it to a fixed external endpoint. This transmission has no consent gate and serves no observable purpose in the exported string-truncation utility.

AI rationale

The active preinstall hook performs unconsented environment-data exfiltration unrelated to the package's runtime functionality. The collection and actual network send are directly established by source.

Evidence

package.jsonsetup.js

Network endpoints1

s85r5k14qk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/hook

OSV advisory

OpenSSF/OSV

figma-to-apl is a dependency-confusion package: it takes a name that looks like an internal project, uses an inflated version (100.0.0) so it outranks private-registry versions, and runs `node setup.js || true` as a preinstall script on npm install. setup.js sends the hostname, username, working directory, OS, architecture, Node.js version and configured npm registry, with a per-package tracking token, in an HTTPS POST to `https://s85r5k14qk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/hook`. The npm account amel10 published figma-to-apl and 9 similar packages within two minutes on 2026-09-30, all with the same setup.js. --- ## Source: amazon-inspector (7e8bd598a9ef9799fc78fb815fba85f3b58114b269ccd6dc710e2113bf13efca) figma-to-apl@100.0.0 declares a preinstall script ("node setup.js || true") that runs automatically on npm install. setup.js collects installer-side identifiers — os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd(), process.platform, process.arch, Node version, and the configured npm registry — and POSTs them together with a hardcoded per-package token to https://s85r5k14qk.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod/hook. The package's advertised functionality is a one-line string-truncation helper, unrelated to the beacon. The version number 100.0.0 combined with a per-package identifying token is characteristic of a dependency-confusion / typosquat reconnaissance probe designed to identify internal build systems that resolve the public package name.

figma-to-apl@100.0.0

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