---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lab-helper/v/0.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lab-helper/v/0.0.2.md"
package: "lab-helper"
report_status: "published"
title: "lab-helper@0.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.2"
---

# lab-helper@0.0.2 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:** 0.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5835 confirms this npm version as malicious. On \`npm install\`, the package's \`postinstall\` hook runs \`sec\_check.js\`, which enumerates the host's network interfaces and proceeds only if an IPv4 address begins with \`18.175.\` — a subnet-based targeting gate that hides the behavior on most developer/CI machines. When the gate passes, the script reads \`\<INIT\_CWD\>/myfile.txt\` from the installer's working directory and uses \`curl -X POST\` to upload its contents to a...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-14T14:55:05.134Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-14T14:55:05.134Z
- **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\`, the package's \`postinstall\` hook runs \`sec\_check.js\`, which enumerates the host's network interfaces and proceeds only if an IPv4 address begins with \`18.175.\` — a subnet-based targeting gate that hides the behavior on most developer/CI machines. When the gate passes, the script reads \`\<INIT\_CWD\>/myfile.txt\` from the installer's working directory and uses \`curl -X POST\` to upload its contents to a hardcoded plaintext C2 at \`http://18.175.63.47:8080/collect\`. The combination of a lifecycle-script auto-execute path, network-identity targeting to evade scanners, hardcoded bare-IP exfiltration endpoint, and reading installer-side files matches a targeted supply-chain attack against a specific environment (likely an AWS/lab subnet).

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (0c9cd86dc5e0a1f19dccb8ecd8517d78b22afc17007d0d72a05ea18911395578) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** lab-helper
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.2
- **Version published:** 2026-05-27T09:24:47.509Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-14T14:55:05.134Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/lab-helper/v/0.0.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5835>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/lab-helper/v/0.0.3>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gqf6-7j7q-9x94>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/lab-helper/v/0.0.2>)