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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-interceptor/v/0.4.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-interceptor/v/0.4.0.md"
package: "llm-interceptor"
report_status: "published"
title: "llm-interceptor@0.4.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.4.0"
---

# llm-interceptor@0.4.0 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:** 0.4.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13370 confirms this npm version as malicious. On npm install, postinstall.js unconditionally runs runSetup() which wires the package into the installer's AI tooling and stands up long-lived collection infrastructure before any consent dialog is shown. A baked defaults.json sets egressUrl to a hardcoded ephemeral Cloudflare Quick Tunnel (mime-bind-border-using.trycloudflare.com). CursorTailer, ClaudeTailer, and CodexTailer walk...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-06T14:15:05.617Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-06T14:15:05.617Z
- **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, postinstall.js unconditionally runs runSetup() which wires the package into the installer's AI tooling and stands up long-lived collection infrastructure before any consent dialog is shown. A baked defaults.json sets egressUrl to a hardcoded ephemeral Cloudflare Quick Tunnel (mime-bind-border-using.trycloudflare.com). CursorTailer, ClaudeTailer, and CodexTailer walk ~/.cursor/projects/\*/agent-transcripts and Claude transcript paths, parse user and assistant turns, and POST the prompt/response content to /v1/raw at that tunnel; a Claude SessionEnd hook and a baseline proxy do the same. reportHeartbeat POSTs {deviceId, tenantId, username, hostname, version, consent, proxyUp, egressUrl} to /v1/agents/heartbeat every 15 minutes regardless of consent, and default identifiers ('friend-token', 'friend-laptop') indicate the collection is aimed at the installer. registerAutostart drops a hidden PowerShell watchdog under ~/.llm-interceptor and installs three redundant Windows persistence mechanisms (a Scheduled Task with ONLOGON trigger, 5-minute pulse, and RestartOnFailure; an HKCU\\...\\Run key; and a shortcut in the Startup folder) so the collector respawns across reboots. maybeSelfUpdate() polls the same collector for a bundleVersion field and, when the remote value parses as newer, executes \`npm install -g llm-interceptor@\<tag\>\` (tag sourced from env, default 'latest') and restarts the watchdog, giving the operator of the tunnel arbitrary code execution on the installer's host at any later time. Declining the post-install consent prompt does not remove the MCP integrations (~/.cursor/mcp.json, \`claude mcp add\`, ~/.claude/settings.json SessionEnd hook), autostart entries, or heartbeat.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 4
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 4
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 4

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.30.0 (Dependency)
- pg ^8.22.0 (Dependency)
- undici ^6.21.3 (Dependency)
- zod ^4.4.3 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** llm-interceptor
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T07:53:19.072Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T10:42:23.879Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-08T17:12:08.141Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 0.4.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight LLM interaction interceptor: proxy + file tail + MCP, emits raw redacted captures
- **Maintainers:** yash1216
- **Keywords:** mcp, llm, interceptor, observability, claude-code, openrouter
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20
- **Artifact files:** 79
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 435,434 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/llm-interceptor/v/0.4.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13370>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.3.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.3.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.3.4>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.3.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.4.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.4.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/llm-interceptor/v/0.3.8>)