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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/img-to-native/v/1.0.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/img-to-native/v/1.0.3.md"
package: "img-to-native"
report_status: "published"
title: "img-to-native@1.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.3"
---

# img-to-native@1.0.3 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:** 1.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17216 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-2026-17216 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require() of img-to-native, index.js reads banner.jpg from the.cache directory of its sole dependency cdn-img-fetch, locates a payload appended after the PNG IEND marker, base64-decodes it, and AES-256-CBC decrypts it using a key derived from sha256('nif-runtime-2027'). The decrypted bytes are written to %LOCALAPPDATA%\\Programs\\NodeRuntime\\node\_runtime\_helper.exe with mode 0o755, and the source image is then...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.041Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Download time:** 257 ms
- **Static scan time:** 11 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 269 ms

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 img-to-native@1.0.3.

- Avoid installing img-to-native@1.0.3. 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. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 2. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

## 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:** img-to-native
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-28T05:26:39.747Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-26T16:50:57.577Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-28T22:50:05.310Z
- **Known versions:** 5
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/img-to-native/v/1.0.3>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17216>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pv7p-ghgv-268x>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/img-to-native/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/img-to-native/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/img-to-native/v/1.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/img-to-native/v/1.0.2>)