---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nepublisher"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nepublisher/report.md"
package: "nepublisher"
report_status: "published"
title: "nepublisher@0.4.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.4.0"
---

# nepublisher@0.4.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5984 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 0.4.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5984 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5984 confirms this npm version as malicious. On \`npm install\`, lib/\_init.js spawns a detached Node child process that collects host identifiers (hostname, username, cwd, IPv4 addresses, Node version, npm registry) and the names of environment variables matching /NPM|NODE|CI|JENKINS|GIT|BUILD|RUNNER|DOCKER|KUBE|REGISTRY/, then HTTPS-POSTs the data to a hardcoded DingTalk robot webhook (oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send) with a Chinese title meaning 'someone came...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **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 nepublisher@0.4.0.

- Avoid installing nepublisher@0.4.0. 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%

On \`npm install\`, lib/\_init.js spawns a detached Node child process that collects host identifiers (hostname, username, cwd, IPv4 addresses, Node version, npm registry) and the names of environment variables matching /NPM|NODE|CI|JENKINS|GIT|BUILD|RUNNER|DOCKER|KUBE|REGISTRY/, then HTTPS-POSTs the data to a hardcoded DingTalk robot webhook (oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send) with a Chinese title meaning 'someone came online'. The script also contains explicit sandbox-evasion logic at lib/\_init.js:9-12 that no-ops when the username or hostname contains 'sandbox', 'malware', 'analyst', 'cuckoo', 'analysis', or 'sample' — a clear intent signal designed to hide the beacon from automated analyzers. The collected fields plus the CI/registry-focused env-name filter are the canonical dependency-confusion reconnaissance pattern: identify which organizations have pulled the package by mistake and harvest target intel for follow-on internal-package attacks.

## 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:** nepublisher
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.4.0
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 0.4.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nepublisher>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5984>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/nepublisher/MAL-2026-5984.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/nepublisher/v/0.4.0>)