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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/npm-groat/v/1.1.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/npm-groat/v/1.1.1.md"
package: "npm-groat"
report_status: "published"
title: "npm-groat@1.1.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.1.1"
---

# npm-groat@1.1.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Potential remote code execution if repaired or made executable; installation currently fails before the fetch.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.1.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installation invokes dist/config.js. It contains a remote-controlled global function invocation, but its syntax/runtime errors prevent execution as shipped.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T14:54:39.836Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T14:55:09.083Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 40 ms
- **AI review time:** 28703 ms
- **Total time:** 29247 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation invokes dist/config.js. It contains a remote-controlled global function invocation, but its syntax/runtime errors prevent execution as shipped.

- **Trigger:** npm postinstall

- **Impact:** Potential remote code execution if repaired or made executable; installation currently fails before the fetch.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, dist/config.js, src/index.js, dist/index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T14:55:09.083Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote response drives a globalThis call

- **Rationale:** The install-time remote-controlled invocation is unrelated to the advertised library and is a credible staged payload pattern. Because the shipped code cannot execute under the declared CommonJS configuration, warn rather than block.

- **Files touched:** package.json, dist/config.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://my-api.trade-api.workers.dev?id=0

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Medium

- **Evidence for:** package.json runs dist/config.js as postinstall., dist/config.js fetches https://my-api.trade-api.workers.dev?id=0., Remote response controls a globalThis function name and argument., The package’s money-helper source has no legitimate need for this lifecycle network code.

- **Evidence against:** No credential, file-harvesting, child-process, or persistence code was found., dist/config.js is incompatible with the CommonJS package setup and references undefined identifiers, so the payload is inert as shipped.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/npm-groat@1.1.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node dist/config.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: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

## 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:** npm-groat
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.1.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-27T13:22:49.608Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-27T20:54:43.988Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T14:55:09.083Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 1.1.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/npm-groat/v/1.1.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12798>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-groat/v/1.1.2>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-groat/v/1.1.1>)