---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/randompkga/v/1.0.7"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/randompkga/v/1.0.7.md"
package: "randompkga"
report_status: "published"
title: "randompkga@1.0.7 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "1.0.7"
---

# randompkga@1.0.7 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged — allowed with a warning** — Allowed by default policy, but 4 finding(s) warrant review before installing.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Matched warn-list
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.0.7
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing this package runs a preinstall hook that installs an additional package. No concrete malicious payload is present in the inspected package.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T17:25:10.203Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T17:25:31.702Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 13 ms
- **AI review time:** 21230 ms
- **Total time:** 21499 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing this package runs a preinstall hook that installs an additional package. No concrete malicious payload is present in the inspected package.

- **Trigger:** npm installation of randompkga

- **Impact:** Introduces unpinned install-time supply-chain risk through randompkgb.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-19T17:25:31.702Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** install-time transitive package installation

- **Rationale:** The install hook creates a concrete, unexplained supply-chain risk but the package itself contains no verified attack chain. Warn rather than block.

- **Files touched:** package.json

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** A preinstall hook invokes npm to install randompkgb during installation.

- **Evidence against:** The package contains only package.json; declared index.js is absent., No source evidence of credential access, exfiltration, remote payload execution, persistence, or destructive actions.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.7/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = echo BEFORE && npm i randompkgb && echo INSTALL_SUCCEEDED
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.7/package.json>)

Install-time lifecycle script matches a deterministic static-gate block pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = echo BEFORE && npm i randompkgb && echo INSTALL_SUCCEEDED
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 87.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.7/package.json>)

A preinstall hook invokes npm to install randompkgb during installation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "preinstall": "echo BEFORE && npm i randompkgb && echo INSTALL_SUCCEEDED"
  },
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** randompkga
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.7
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T10:24:21.494Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T09:48:32.819Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T20:50:49.577Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 1.0.22
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Maintainers:** tilm
- **Artifact files:** 1
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 266 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/randompkga/v/1.0.7>)