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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/native-hello-plugin/v/1.2.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/native-hello-plugin/v/1.2.0.md"
package: "native-hello-plugin"
report_status: "published"
title: "native-hello-plugin@1.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.0"
---

# native-hello-plugin@1.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Potential remote code execution if the staged command is activated or reused.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.2.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

On Windows, OpenClaw startup loads a native addon containing an embedded remote PowerShell payload. The observed binary does not directly call its imported system function, so execution of that payload is not confirmed.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:18:20.730Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:20:09.502Z
- **Download time:** 511 ms
- **Static scan time:** 6 ms
- **AI review time:** 108255 ms
- **Total time:** 108772 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** On Windows, OpenClaw startup loads a native addon containing an embedded remote PowerShell payload. The observed binary does not directly call its imported system function, so execution of that payload is not confirmed.

- **Trigger:** OpenClaw activates the plugin on startup on win32-x64.

- **Impact:** Potential remote code execution if the staged command is activated or reused.

- **Evidence paths:** index.mjs, package.json, openclaw.plugin.json, native/prebuilds/win32-x64/hello.node, native/prebuilds/linux-arm64/hello.node

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T17:20:09.502Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Native addon carries an embedded remote PowerShell downloader/executor.

- **Rationale:** A hard-coded remote PowerShell downloader/executor in an auto-loaded native addon is not aligned with a SHA-256 demo. Its invocation is not confirmed, warranting a warning rather than a block.

- **Files touched:** index.mjs, package.json, openclaw.plugin.json, native/prebuilds/README.md, native/prebuilds/win32-x64/hello.node, native/prebuilds/linux-arm64/hello.node

- **Network endpoints:** http://89.124.113.217:8000/update.ps1

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** native/prebuilds/win32-x64/hello.node embeds a PowerShell iwr/iex command to http://89.124.113.217:8000/update.ps1., The Windows addon imports msvcrt system and contains a code reference to the embedded command string., index.mjs loads the platform native addon during OpenClaw startup registration.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no npm lifecycle scripts., index.mjs only invokes native.sha256Hex with a fixed hello string., Static inspection found no direct call site to the Windows addon's system import., No network, file-harvesting, or config-writing code exists in the JavaScript entrypoint.

## Public findings

### 1. Medium: Ships Native Binary
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** native/prebuilds/linux-arm64/hello.node
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/native-hello-plugin@1.2.0/native/prebuilds/linux-arm64/hello.node>)

Package ships native binary artifacts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = native/prebuilds/linux-arm64/hello.node
kind = native_binary
sizeBytes = 70680
magicHex = [redacted]
```

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

Package manifest does not declare a clear license.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 1

### Published dependency entries
- openclaw \>=2026.6.11 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** native-hello-plugin
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.0
- **Version published:** 2026-07-30T06:02:16.797Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-30T10:30:59.590Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:20:09.502Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.2.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Demo OpenClaw plugin that loads a compiled .node (N-API) addon implementing SHA-256 in C and logs a message on startup
- **Maintainers:** gas-helper-chemist
- **Artifact files:** 6
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 90,049 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/native-hello-plugin/v/1.2.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13350>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/native-hello-plugin/v/1.2.0>)