---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/minequest/v/0.1.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/minequest/v/0.1.1.md"
package: "minequest"
report_status: "published"
title: "minequest@0.1.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.1"
---

# minequest@0.1.1 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:** 0.1.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14275 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares a postinstall hook running scripts/init.js, which chmod 0755's assets/thanks-amd64.elf and execFileSync's it on Linux x64 during npm install. The README states the package has 'no install hooks, no native binaries — just readable JavaScript', and scripts/build-elf.js is written to look like a fully-auditable ~250-byte hand-assembled ELF that only prints a thank-you message...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T08:35:04.937Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T08:35:04.937Z
- **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%

package.json declares a postinstall hook running scripts/init.js, which chmod 0755's assets/thanks-amd64.elf and execFileSync's it on Linux x64 during npm install. The README states the package has 'no install hooks, no native binaries — just readable JavaScript', and scripts/build-elf.js is written to look like a fully-auditable ~250-byte hand-assembled ELF that only prints a thank-you message. The binary actually shipped in the tarball is a 33,648,788-byte Go-compiled executable (sha256 05b696…4420) containing Go runtime symbols, chacha8, and references to /proc/self/cgroup, /proc/self/mountinfo, and syscall filter strings — an artifact with no relationship to the shipped build script. The documented audit path is a cover story for an opaque native binary that executes with installer privileges on every Linux x64 npm install, with no description of its actual behavior available to the installer.

## 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:** minequest
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.1
- **Version published:** 2026-07-24T11:11:56.724Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T08:35:04.937Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T08:35:04.937Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 0.1.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/minequest/v/0.1.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14275>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/minequest/v/0.1.1>)