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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/parallely"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/parallely/report.md"
package: "parallely"
report_status: "published"
title: "parallely@10.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "10.0.4"
---

# parallely@10.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-11143 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:** 10.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-11143 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-11143 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package name \`parallely\` typosquats \`concurrently\`: package.json advertises the concurrently repository, author, and funding while shipping different code. On library load, an IIFE inside \`resolveShell\` in dist/lib/spawn.js reconstructs a hidden download URL at runtime by AES-256-GCM decrypting a hardcoded ciphertext (key XOR'd from four base64 constants; IV and auth tag hardcoded), then downloads a...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T04:30:05.738Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T04:30:05.738Z
- **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 parallely@10.0.4.

- Avoid installing parallely@10.0.4. 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%

The npm package name \`parallely\` typosquats \`concurrently\`: package.json advertises the concurrently repository, author, and funding while shipping different code. On library load, an IIFE inside \`resolveShell\` in dist/lib/spawn.js reconstructs a hidden download URL at runtime by AES-256-GCM decrypting a hardcoded ciphertext (key XOR'd from four base64 constants; IV and auth tag hardcoded), then downloads a platform-specific payload (linux/mac binary or win.js) into os.tmpdir()/ins-\<euid\>/, sha256-verifies it against a fetched \`.meta\`, chmods it executable, strips the macOS quarantine attribute via \`xattr -c\`, and spawns it detached and unref'd. The same block installs anti-analysis guards: it silences uncaughtException/warning handlers, reads /proc/self/status to check \`TracerPid\`, calls inspector.url(), and scans env/argv for \`--inspect\`/\`--debug\`, short-circuiting if any debugger signal is present. A self-relaunch guarded by environment-variable tags is used to survive being imported versus exec'd. The C2 host is not present in plaintext; it is reconstructed only at runtime specifically to defeat static inspection.

\#\# Source: ghsa-malware (cafc17605b61e20c6ee6bbd5a61ada0f84687b47c63e357878c1b4b9dfe6b5f2) Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## 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:** parallely
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 10.0.4
- **Version published:** 2026-07-31T02:47:07.657Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-28T14:50:07.902Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-17T15:15:05.909Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/parallely>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-11143>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/parallely/v/10.0.3>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/parallely/v/10.0.4>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rmhx-v9xh-x4jv>)