---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-hold/v/2.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-hold/v/2.0.1.md"
package: "hardhat-hold"
report_status: "published"
title: "hardhat-hold@2.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.1"
---

# hardhat-hold@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:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14246 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's main entry index.js unconditionally requires./lib/config, which is a ~4MB obfuscator.io-style blob (string array of ~23,981 entries with a rotating decoder and hex-escaped literals)...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **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 main entry index.js unconditionally requires./lib/config, which is a ~4MB obfuscator.io-style blob (string array of ~23,981 entries with a rotating decoder and hex-escaped literals). The readable identifiers inside that payload include execSync (child\_process) and axios (HTTP client) — the local-execution and outbound-network primitives used by droppers and exfiltration stagers — and the payload runs at import time via a top-level IIFE. The wrapper index.js copies the pino logger API surface but never uses the config export; its only effect is to force the obfuscated blob to load on require(). The package name hardhat-hold is a one-token variant of the Ethereum tooling package hardhat, while the README impersonates the pino logger (including shields.io badges that still point at pino's repository), and package.json carries an unrelated boilerplate description about vulnerability management. The combination of name/README/description mismatch with an obfuscated import-time payload carrying shell-exec + HTTP primitives is the canonical typosquat-dropper shape.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 1
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 2

### Published dependency entries
- axios ^1.10.0 (Dependency)
- parse-json ^8.3.0 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** hardhat-hold
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-24T04:43:42.252Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-31T17:02:57.804Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 2.21.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** This document describes the management for the project and all modules within the organization.
- **Author:** Jackson Blau
- **Maintainers:** nomicworld1203
- **Keywords:** solidity, logger, stream, hardhat
- **Artifact files:** 41
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 268,869 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-hold/v/2.0.1>)
- [Issues](<https://jsonspack.com/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14246>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hardhat-hold/v/2.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hardhat-hold/v/2.21.0>)