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

# hardhat-option@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-2026-17660 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-2026-17660 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package's declared main index.js immediately requires./lib/config, which is a single-line ~4.5MB obfuscator.io-style bundle (26,234-entry hex-escaped string array, rotated decoder wrappers, control-flow flattening) whose top-level IIFE executes as soon as the module is loaded...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-08T04:20:05.600Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-08T04:20:05.600Z
- **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-option@2.0.1.

- Avoid installing hardhat-option@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%

The package's declared main index.js immediately requires./lib/config, which is a single-line ~4.5MB obfuscator.io-style bundle (26,234-entry hex-escaped string array, rotated decoder wrappers, control-flow flattening) whose top-level IIFE executes as soon as the module is loaded. The exported middleware is a no-op, so the sole effect of require('hardhat-option') is to run the opaque payload with the installer's privileges. The package also presents a false identity: the name is hardhat-option but README, index.d.ts and lib/\* are copied from pinojs/pino and index.js re-exports module.exports.pino = middleware to satisfy consumers expecting pino's API, while package.json attributes authorship to 'Robert King \<hello@jsonspack.com\>' with an unrelated bugs URL at jsonspack.com. A multi-megabyte, fully obfuscated module body that auto-executes on import inside a package falsely wrapped in another project's identity is the canonical loader/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-option
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-10-07T09:12:25.926Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-08T04:20:05.600Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-08T04:20:05.600Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 2.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hardhat-option/v/2.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17660>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hardhat-option/v/2.0.1>)