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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-devkit/v/2.0.1"
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package: "hardhat-devkit"
report_status: "published"
title: "hardhat-devkit@2.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.1"
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# hardhat-devkit@2.0.1 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:** 2.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-16349 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-16349 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package published as \`hardhat-devkit\` presents itself as an Ethereum/Hardhat developer toolkit, but the shipped surface is a cover story: README, index.d.ts, and keywords (\`fast\`, \`logger\`, \`stream\`, \`json\`) are copied from \`pinojs/pino\`, the manifest description references vulnerability management, and the homepage points at \`jsonspack.com\` (author \`hello@jsonspack.com\`). The package's \`index.js\` unconditionally...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-04T23:50:08.067Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-04T23:50:08.067Z
- **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 hardhat-devkit@2.0.1.

- Avoid installing hardhat-devkit@2.0.1. 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%

Package published as \`hardhat-devkit\` presents itself as an Ethereum/Hardhat developer toolkit, but the shipped surface is a cover story: README, index.d.ts, and keywords (\`fast\`, \`logger\`, \`stream\`, \`json\`) are copied from \`pinojs/pino\`, the manifest description references vulnerability management, and the homepage points at \`jsonspack.com\` (author \`hello@jsonspack.com\`). The package's \`index.js\` unconditionally executes \`require('./lib/config')\` on load. \`lib/config.js\` is a single-line ~4,070,107-byte JavaScript file heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io techniques: hex-escaped identifiers and property names (\`\_0xNNNN\`, \`\\x63\\x68\\x61\\x72\\x43\\x6f\\x64\\x65\\x41\\x74\`), a self-mutating string-array indexer with an embedded RC4+base64 string decoder (\`J\[v\]=J\[W\]; e+=String.fromCharCode(N.charCodeAt(a)^J\[(J\[v\]+J\[W\])%256\])\`), control-flow flattening via a \`while(!!\[\]){try{...}catch{}}\` dispatcher, and a debugger-defense self-check. This concealed payload runs on any \`require('hardhat-devkit')\` or \`import\` of the package, targeting an audience (Ethereum developers) whose machines are likely to hold wallet keystores, mnemonics, and deployment keys. The combination of brand impersonation, mismatched cover-story metadata copied from an unrelated legitimate project, and a multi-megabyte obfuscated blob reachable at module load time is the supply-chain dropper shape.

## 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:** hardhat-devkit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-10-02T15:21:20.575Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-17T21:59:29.653Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-04T23:50:08.067Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 2.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-devkit/v/2.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-16349>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hardhat-devkit/v/2.3.6>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hardhat-devkit/v/2.0.1>)