---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/netcontrol-agent"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/netcontrol-agent/report.md"
package: "netcontrol-agent"
report_status: "published"
title: "netcontrol-agent@1.0.5 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.5"
---

# netcontrol-agent@1.0.5 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10741 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:** 1.0.5
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10741 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-10741 confirms this npm version as malicious. netcontrol-agent.js implements a remote agent that long-polls a configured server URL and pipes the returned bytes directly into an interactive shell's stdin (cmd.exe on Windows, $SHELL or /bin/bash -i on Linux), while streaming stdout/stderr back to the server's /session/\<id\>/output endpoint...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-16T19:45:09.798Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-16T19:45:09.798Z
- **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 netcontrol-agent@1.0.5.

- Avoid installing netcontrol-agent@1.0.5. 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%

netcontrol-agent.js implements a remote agent that long-polls a configured server URL and pipes the returned bytes directly into an interactive shell's stdin (cmd.exe on Windows, $SHELL or /bin/bash -i on Linux), while streaming stdout/stderr back to the server's /session/\<id\>/output endpoint. The relayLoop auto-attaches to any session the server advertises, so whoever controls NC\_SERVER\_URL obtains full interactive command execution on every host running the agent. The --install path escalates blast radius by writing a systemd unit that runs the agent as root, or a Windows scheduled task with /RU SYSTEM /RL HIGHEST /SC ONSTART, providing boot persistence at maximum privilege. An NC\_AUTO\_UPDATE mode downloads a replacement agent script from the same server and atomically overwrites AGENT\_PATH, letting the server push arbitrary new code to installed hosts on the next poll. Collected host identifiers (os.hostname(), version) are also POSTed to the server. The remote-shell-plus-persistence-plus-self-update composition is a full backdoor mechanism regardless of the package's self-description.

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

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

### Published dependency entries
- systeminformation ^5.31.16 (Dependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** netcontrol-agent
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.5
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-16T03:25:08.726Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-11T04:45:23.512Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-26T09:50:49.787Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 1.1.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A Node agent that collects system metrics like CPU, RAM, disk, network usage, and uptime to a remote server.
- **Author:** NANDHAKUMAR A
- **Maintainers:** kenpachi-zaraki
- **Keywords:** monitoring, agent, netcontrol, system, metrics
- **Artifact files:** 3
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 45,330 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/netcontrol-agent>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10741>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/netcontrol-agent/v/1.0.5>)