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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.16"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.16.md"
package: "manager-thedate"
report_status: "published"
title: "manager-thedate@1.0.16 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.16"
---

# manager-thedate@1.0.16 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The opaque payload prevents confirming its purpose, but it has no observed execution path.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.16
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Package import reads and exposes an opaque encrypted file. No decrypted execution or outbound behavior is present in the inspected source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-31T18:59:15.682Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Download time:** 515 ms
- **Static scan time:** 20 ms
- **AI review time:** 53409 ms
- **Total time:** 53945 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Package import reads and exposes an opaque encrypted file. No decrypted execution or outbound behavior is present in the inspected source.

- **Trigger:** Importing manager-thedate

- **Impact:** The opaque payload prevents confirming its purpose, but it has no observed execution path.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js, apps/docs/app/theta.js, apps/docs/app/des.db, apps/docs/package.json, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** Synchronous export of an encrypted bundled blob

- **Rationale:** This is an unexplained inert encrypted payload exposed at import time, so it warrants a warning rather than a block. No concrete malicious execution chain was found.

- **Files touched:** index.js, apps/docs/app/theta.js, apps/docs/app/des.db

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** downgrade\_to\_warn

- **Intent class:** Unknown

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Importing the package synchronously reads and exports an encrypted 16 KB blob., The exported blob has an OpenSSL salted encryption header, but no package code decrypts or uses it., The nested manifest names different source and data filenames than the files actually exported.

- **Evidence against:** No install lifecycle hook is declared., No network, subprocess, dynamic-code, persistence, or destructive behavior was found., The encrypted blob is inert in the inspected source.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 3. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 4. Low: No License
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/manager-thedate@1.0.16/index.js>)

Importing the package synchronously reads and exports an encrypted 16 KB blob.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
export { desKey } from "./apps/docs/app/theta.js";
```

### 6. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** apps/docs/app/theta.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/manager-thedate@1.0.16/apps/docs/app/theta.js>)

Importing the package synchronously reads and exports an encrypted 16 KB blob.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";

const desPath = fileURLToPath(new URL("./des.db", import.meta.url));

export const desKey = readFileSync(desPath, "utf8");
```

### 7. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 91.0%
- **Path:** apps/docs/app/des.db
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/manager-thedate@1.0.16/apps/docs/app/des.db>)

The exported blob has an OpenSSL salted encryption header, but no package code decrypts or uses it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
[redacted]
```

## 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:** manager-thedate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.16
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T19:35:44.716Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-29T19:26:09.759Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-31T19:00:09.627Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/manager-thedate/v/1.0.16>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-15568>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3rww-v3p8-fw9p>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/manager-thedate/v/1.0.16>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/manager-thedate/v/1.0.15>)