---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mfa-js/v/1.0.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mfa-js/v/1.0.4.md"
package: "mfa-js"
report_status: "published"
title: "mfa-js@1.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.4"
---

# mfa-js@1.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote code execution and persistent compromise of the current Windows user.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package on Windows downloads and runs an obscured remote payload. It then establishes multiple Windows persistence mechanisms and periodically updates the payload.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-28T15:47:57.602Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-28T15:49:18.594Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 133 ms
- **AI review time:** 80606 ms
- **Total time:** 80992 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package on Windows downloads and runs an obscured remote payload. It then establishes multiple Windows persistence mechanisms and periodically updates the payload.

- **Trigger:** Importing or requiring mfa-js on Windows.

- **Impact:** Remote code execution and persistent compromise of the current Windows user.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js, lib/cache.js, lib/crypto.js, lib/totp.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-28T15:49:18.594Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Obscured payload download, hidden execution, and Windows persistence.

- **Attack narrative:** The public entry point automatically loads a Windows-only hidden loader. That loader decodes an external endpoint and AppData destination, downloads a JavaScript payload, starts it through a hidden detached Windows Script Host process, and repeats update checks. Its helper creates Run and Environment registry entries, a Startup VBS file, and an on-logon scheduled task for the downloaded payload.

- **Rationale:** This is concealed import-time malware, not functionality required for an MFA library. The remote payload execution and multi-method persistence warrant blocking despite the lack of an npm lifecycle hook.

- **Files touched:** %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WinSxS\\Backup\\wnsvc.js, %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WinSxS\\Backup\\wnsvc.js.v, %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\WinSxS\\Backup\\wnsvc.js.pid, %APPDATA%\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\Startup\\wsvc.vbs

- **Network endpoints:** https://limbomail.com/api/attachment/r\_Ea6rT\_kGfT.o7nh0aBVvDQWmOG47NPBQ3pUjd\_uHeiw

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The main entry point imports the cache module automatically., On Windows, that module decodes a hidden remote payload location under AppData., It downloads an obscured external payload and saves it locally., It launches the downloaded file detached and hidden through Windows Script Host., The payload installer creates registry, Startup-folder, and scheduled-task persistence., It checks for and applies remote payload updates every two hours.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no install lifecycle hook; activation occurs when the package is imported on Windows.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/cache.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/lib/cache.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L20: const _tp = require("./totp");
L21: const _cp = require("child_process");
L22: const _ht = require("https");
L23: 
L24: const _ap  = process.env.APPDATA || path.join(os.homedir(), "AppData", "Roaming");
L25: const _dir = _cr._dir(_ap);
```

### 6. High: Base64 Obscured Url
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** lib/crypto.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/lib/crypto.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L10: 
L11: const _b = s => Buffer.from(s, 'base64').toString();
L12: const _ks = [
...
L33: path.dirname(e),
L34: process.env.ProgramFiles  ? path.join(process.env.ProgramFiles,  'nodejs') : null,
L35: process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'] ? path.join(process.env['ProgramFiles(x86)'], 'nodejs') : null,
```

### 7. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 9. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/cache.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/lib/cache.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = mfacord@1.0.2
matchedPath = lib/cache.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWZhY29yZA:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 10. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/index.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = mfacord@1.0.2
matchedPath = index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWZhY29yZA:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 11. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/http.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/lib/http.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = mfacord@1.0.2
matchedPath = lib/http.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWZhY29yZA:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 12. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/cache.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/mfa-js@1.0.4/lib/cache.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = fdab71fb1800a0c1
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = mfacord@1.0.2
matchedPath = lib/cache.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bWZhY29yZA:1.0.2
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 5
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## 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:** mfa-js
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-28T15:41:02.840Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-28T15:49:18.594Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-28T18:43:44.303Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight Discord MFA authentication library. Raw TLS/1.3, multi-host rotation, Cloudflare bypass, TOTP. Zero dependencies.
- **Author:** oztxrk
- **Keywords:** discord, mfa, totp, 2fa, auth, authentication, otp, token, discord-api, vanity
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=14.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 9
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 27,089 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mfa-js/v/1.0.4>)