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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/prettier-sdk"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/prettier-sdk/report.md"
package: "prettier-sdk"
report_status: "published"
title: "prettier-sdk@1.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.2"
---

# prettier-sdk@1.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4645 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:** 1.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-4645 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-4645 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package name \`prettier-sdk\` impersonates the top-tier \`prettier\` package (~50M weekly downloads), copying its README verbatim and forging metadata (\`repository: prettier/prettier\`, \`homepage: https://prettier.io\`, \`author: James Long\`). The \`postinstall\` script \`node./plugins/preinstall.js\` base64-decodes a hardcoded URL stored in a misleadingly-named variable \`HASH\_KEY = "aHR0cHM6Ly9qc29ua2VlcGVyLmNvbS9iLzM2S0VN"\`...

## 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 prettier-sdk@1.0.2.

- Avoid installing prettier-sdk@1.0.2. 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%

Package name \`prettier-sdk\` impersonates the top-tier \`prettier\` package (~50M weekly downloads), copying its README verbatim and forging metadata (\`repository: prettier/prettier\`, \`homepage: https://prettier.io\`, \`author: James Long\`). The \`postinstall\` script \`node./plugins/preinstall.js\` base64-decodes a hardcoded URL stored in a misleadingly-named variable \`HASH\_KEY = "aHR0cHM6Ly9qc29ua2VlcGVyLmNvbS9iLzM2S0VN"\` (decodes to \`https://jsonkeeper.com/b/36KEM\`, an anonymous mutable paste service), HTTP GETs it via axios, and pipes the response body's \`cookie\` field to the stdin of a detached \`node\` process via \`spawn('node', \[\], { detached: true,... })\` followed by \`child.stdin.write(s1); child.unref()\`. This executes arbitrary attacker-controlled JavaScript on every installer's machine at \`npm install\` time, with no integrity check, from a host the attacker can mutate at will. Three independent block signals stack: typosquat-with-malicious-payload against a top-100 package, install-time fetch-and-execute from an anonymous paste host, and base64 obfuscation of the C2 URL.

## 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:** prettier-sdk
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.2
- **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:** 1.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/prettier-sdk>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-4645>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/prettier-sdk/v/1.0.2>)