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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "hex-encode-utils"
report_status: "published"
title: "hex-encode-utils@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# hex-encode-utils@1.0.1 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:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13695 confirms this npm version as malicious. On npm install, scripts/compat.js runs as a postinstall hook and fetches an AES-256-GCM-encrypted blob over HTTPS from two hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts (steel-mere-4155.ricardorichp.workers.dev, cold-peak-7969.0x0gnx0.workers.dev) with TLS verification disabled (rejectUnauthorized: false), decrypts it with a hardcoded key derived from a 'BIP-0174' decoy string, writes the plaintext to...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **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%

On npm install, scripts/compat.js runs as a postinstall hook and fetches an AES-256-GCM-encrypted blob over HTTPS from two hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts (steel-mere-4155.ricardorichp.workers.dev, cold-peak-7969.0x0gnx0.workers.dev) with TLS verification disabled (rejectUnauthorized: false), decrypts it with a hardcoded key derived from a 'BIP-0174' decoy string, writes the plaintext to ~/.cache/hex-encode-utils/modules/exec\_runtime.py, and spawns a detached, stdio-ignored Python process to execute it. Before dropping the payload the script POSTs an install beacon to /r on the same Workers host carrying the installer's hostname (os.hostname()), username (os.userInfo()), platform/arch (os.platform()), Node version, and package version, formatted as an HTML Telegram message with chat\_id 6087129674 for relay to a Telegram bot. Execution is gated by sandbox-evasion checks that abort in CI/container environments (CI, GITHUB\_ACTIONS, DOCKER\_CONTAINER, KUBERNETES\_SERVICE\_HOST) and require Desktop/Documents/Downloads directories under $HOME to confirm a developer workstation. Comments frame the code as a next.js/nuxt-style compatibility shim. The package's stated purpose (hex encode/decode) has no legitimate need for postinstall network I/O, encrypted-payload fetch, Python execution, or host reconnaissance to a Telegram relay.

## 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:** hex-encode-utils
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-10T04:28:57.671Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-10T13:05:05.007Z
- **Known versions:** 6
- **Latest version:** 1.0.5
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13695>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.5>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/hex-encode-utils/v/1.0.4>)