---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mxdriver/v/0.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mxdriver/v/0.0.1.md"
package: "mxdriver"
report_status: "published"
title: "mxdriver@0.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.1"
---

# mxdriver@0.0.1 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:** 0.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-16383 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-16383 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package mxdriver@0.0.2 ships obfuscator.io-style string-array-obfuscated preinstall and postinstall scripts (scripts/preinstall.js, scripts/postinstall.js). On npm install, the decoded scripts fetch remote content from api.imghippo.com (an anonymous third-party image host, e.g. https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png) and a second URL under www.image.com/, write the bytes into the package directory as...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to mxdriver@0.0.1.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 0.0.1, 0.0.2.

- Avoid installing mxdriver@0.0.1. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

The npm package mxdriver@0.0.2 ships obfuscator.io-style string-array-obfuscated preinstall and postinstall scripts (scripts/preinstall.js, scripts/postinstall.js). On npm install, the decoded scripts fetch remote content from api.imghippo.com (an anonymous third-party image host, e.g. https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png) and a second URL under www.image.com/, write the bytes into the package directory as gldriver\_pre\_asset.exe and gldriver\_pre\_core.exe, then invoke a platform-specific opener against the.exe path via child\_process.exec (\`mspaint "..."\` on win32, \`open "..."\` on darwin, \`xdg-open "..."\` on linux), and delete the files. The README frames the package as a Google APIs wrapper, which does not correspond to downloading and opening.exe files at install time. The delivery source is mutable and non-publisher, no hash or signature is verified, the destination filename is an executable extension, and the URLs, filenames, and shell commands are all hidden behind a rotated string-array accessor (\`\_0x5c7e\`) — a classic install-time dropper pattern whose payload can be swapped at any time by whoever controls the imghippo asset.

## 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:** mxdriver
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T03:39:57.667Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/mxdriver/v/0.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-16383>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/mxdriver/v/0.0.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/mxdriver/v/0.0.1>)