---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/punchcard-presence/v/1.0.8"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/punchcard-presence/v/1.0.8.md"
package: "punchcard-presence"
report_status: "published"
title: "punchcard-presence@1.0.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.8"
---

# punchcard-presence@1.0.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Soft block: AI-agent control surface** — Warn by default; block when configured. Future Claude Code lifecycle events execute this package’s CLI; the package also reads Claude/Codex activity data.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Warn by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Soft block: AI-agent control surface
- **Selected version:** 1.0.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM flags this version as an AI-agent control-surface risk. A global npm install silently mutates the user’s Claude Code hook configuration, starts a background daemon/tray, and enables login persistence by default. This is an unconsented install-time write to a foreign AI-agent control surface.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-17T04:13:22.110Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-17T04:14:05.508Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 447 ms
- **AI review time:** 42697 ms
- **Total time:** 43398 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** A global npm install silently mutates the user’s Claude Code hook configuration, starts a background daemon/tray, and enables login persistence by default. This is an unconsented install-time write to a foreign AI-agent control surface.

- **Trigger:** Global npm installation invokes postinstall.

- **Impact:** Future Claude Code lifecycle events execute this package’s CLI; the package also reads Claude/Codex activity data.

- **Evidence paths:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, bin/cli.js, lib/claude-hooks.js, lib/state.js, lib/paths.js, lib/autostart.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-17T04:14:05.508Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** postinstall-driven Claude hook injection and background persistence

- **Attack narrative:** On global installation, postinstall runs \`punchcard install\` without user interaction. That path writes command hooks into the user’s Claude settings for prompt, stop, subagent, and session events, then starts detached background processes. Because the default configuration enables start-at-login, it also installs platform autostart persistence. The hook target is a foreign AI-agent configuration, making this an unconsented control-surface mutation.

- **Rationale:** The package’s global postinstall directly triggers persistent Claude Code hook injection and daemon startup. This meets the block policy for unconsented install-time mutation of a foreign AI-agent control surface.

- **Files touched:** scripts/postinstall.cjs, bin/cli.js, lib/claude-hooks.js, lib/state.js, lib/paths.js, lib/autostart.js

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** Global postinstall silently invokes the install command., Install enables the daemon, installs Claude hooks, and starts detached processes., Hooks overwrite the user’s Claude settings with command hooks for six agent events., Default settings enable start-at-login, so install also reaches OS autostart setup.

- **Evidence against:** No automatic external HTTP endpoint was found in the postinstall chain., Metrics upload code is gated behind the separate More Metrics feature.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.postinstall = node scripts/postinstall.cjs
```

### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 5. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/bin/cli.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import fs from "node:fs/promises";
L3: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L4: import path from "node:path";
```

### 6. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/tray.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/tray.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L195: await ensureDaemonRunning(paths);
L196: child = spawn("powershell.exe", [
L197: "-NoProfile",
```

### 7. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.cjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/scripts/postinstall.cjs>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const { spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
L2: const path = require("node:path");
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 9. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 10. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/autostart.js>)

Source writes installer persistence such as shell profile or service configuration.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: import path from "node:path";
L4: import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { promisify } from "node:util";
...
L59: function darwinContext(options = {}) {
L60: const home = options.home || os.homedir();
L61: const uid = options.uid ?? (typeof process.getuid === "function" ? process.getuid() : null);
...
L72: 
L73: async function launchctl(arguments_, options = {}) {
L74: const execute = options.execFile || execFileAsync;
...
L87: export async function launchAgentRuntimeStatus(options = {}) {
L88: if ((options.platform || process.platform) !== "darwin") return null;
L89: const context = darwinContext(options);
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 12. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/more-metrics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/more-metrics.js>)

A single source file combines environment access, network access, and code or shell execution; review context before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: import path from "node:path";
L3: import { spawn } from "node:child_process";
L4: import { pathToFileURL } from "node:url";
...
L8: export const MORE_METRICS_VERSION = "1.0.1";
L9: export const MORE_METRICS_API_BASE_URL = "https://app.punchcardai.workers.dev";
L10: 
L11: function packageConfig(env = process.env) {
L12: const packageName = String(
```

### 13. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/autostart.js>)

A manifest entrypoint or package-local install chain reaches persistence behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: manifest.bin -> bin/cli.js -> lib/autostart.js
L3: import path from "node:path";
L4: import { execFile } from "node:child_process";
L5: import { promisify } from "node:util";
...
L59: function darwinContext(options = {}) {
L60: const home = options.home || os.homedir();
L61: const uid = options.uid ?? (typeof process.getuid === "function" ? process.getuid() : null);
...
L72: 
L73: async function launchctl(arguments_, options = {}) {
L74: const execute = options.execFile || execFileAsync;
...
L87: export async function launchAgentRuntimeStatus(options = {}) {
L88: if ((options.platform || process.platform) !== "darwin") return null;
L89: const context = darwinContext(options);
```

### 14. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 15. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 16. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** scripts/tray.ps1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/scripts/tray.ps1>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = scripts/tray.ps1
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 24892
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 17. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 18. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/autostart.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/autostart.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = punchcard-presence@1.0.6
matchedPath = lib/autostart.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cHVuY2hjYXJkLXByZXNlbmNl:1.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 19. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/more-metrics.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/lib/more-metrics.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = punchcard-presence@1.0.6
matchedPath = lib/more-metrics.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cHVuY2hjYXJkLXByZXNlbmNl:1.0.6
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 20. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** bin/cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/punchcard-presence@1.0.8/bin/cli.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = punchcard-presence@1.0.6
matchedPath = bin/cli.js
matchedIdentity = npm:cHVuY2hjYXJkLXByZXNlbmNl:1.0.6
similarity = 0.750
shingleOverlap = 36
summary = source token shingles overlapped finalized malicious source
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** punchcard-presence
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.8
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-17T04:06:09.931Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-14T03:34:38.322Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-17T04:14:05.508Z
- **Known versions:** 7
- **Latest version:** 1.0.8
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Punchcard Discord Rich Presence and local AI usage tracking for Claude Code and Codex
- **Author:** TheFysionX
- **Keywords:** discord, rich-presence, punchcard, ai-usage, token-usage, claude-code, codex
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18
- **Artifact files:** 31
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 193,129 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/punchcard-presence/v/1.0.8>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/TheFysionX/punchcard.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/TheFysionX/punchcard#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/TheFysionX/punchcard/issues>)