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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nice-utils-helper/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nice-utils-helper/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "nice-utils-helper"
report_status: "published"
title: "nice-utils-helper@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# nice-utils-helper@1.0.0 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:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14248 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package nice-utils-helper@1.0.0 executes probe.js from its postinstall lifecycle. On install, probe.js issues requests to cloud instance-metadata service endpoints (AWS 169.254.169.254, Aliyun 100.100.100.200, Tencent metadata.tencentyun.com, 169.254.0.23) using curl/http.request/GET and records per-target reachability along with the host's hostname and cwd. It then writes NCODE\_META.txt and...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.197Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 36 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 543 ms

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nice-utils-helper@1.0.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node probe.js
```

### 2. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 4. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. High: Cloud Metadata Access
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** probe.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/nice-utils-helper@1.0.0/probe.js>)

Source reaches cloud instance metadata or link-local credential endpoints.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: var path = require('path');
L4: var http = require('http');
L5: var os = require('os');
L6: 
L7: var cwd = process.cwd();
L8: var lines = ['meta-probe', 'cwd=' + cwd, 'host=' + (function(){try{return os.hostname();}catch(e){return '?';}})()];
L9: 
...
L20: req.on('error', function (e) { if (!done) { done = true; resolve('ERR:' + (e.code || 'conn')); } });
L21: req.end();
L22: } catch (e) {
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** nice-utils-helper
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T19:45:02.249Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T04:40:05.740Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/nice-utils-helper/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14248>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/nice-utils-helper/v/1.0.0>)