---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/shieldcortex"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/shieldcortex/v/5.0.4.md"
package: "shieldcortex"
report_status: "published"
title: "shieldcortex@5.0.4 npm security report"
verdict: "suspicious"
version: "5.0.4"
---

# shieldcortex@5.0.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Flagged as agent extension risk** — Allowed by default with warning: install-time first-party agent extension setup was detected.

- **Verdict:** Suspicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Warn
- **Firewall policy:** Warn-only agent extension risk
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Agent extension lifecycle risk
- **Selected version:** 5.0.4
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: suspicious; recommendation: downgrade to warn. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

LPM treats this as warn-only first-party agent extension lifecycle risk. Global installation can create ShieldCortex defaults and refresh an existing ShieldCortex OpenClaw hook or plugin. This is a package-owned agent extension lifecycle action, with no confirmed exfiltration or foreign control-surface mutation.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Suspicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-13T21:40:04.575Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-13T21:41:27.670Z
- **Download time:** 7858 ms
- **Static scan time:** 15274 ms
- **AI review time:** 59962 ms
- **Total time:** 83095 ms

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Global installation can create ShieldCortex defaults and refresh an existing ShieldCortex OpenClaw hook or plugin. This is a package-owned agent extension lifecycle action, with no confirmed exfiltration or foreign control-surface mutation.

- **Trigger:** A non-CI global npm installation where an OpenClaw installation and existing ShieldCortex hook or plugin are present.

- **Impact:** The package can update its existing OpenClaw integration without a separate user command.

- **Evidence paths:** scripts/postinstall.mjs, dist/setup/openclaw.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-13T21:41:27.670Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Postinstall refreshes the package's OpenClaw extension and writes package defaults.

- **Rationale:** The package automatically mutates its own configuration and existing OpenClaw extension during global installation. That warrants a warning, but the inspected source does not show a concrete malicious chain.

- **Files touched:** ~/.shieldcortex/config.json, ~/.openclaw/hooks/cortex-memory, ~/.openclaw/extensions/shieldcortex-realtime

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Suspicious

- **Confidence:** 90.0%

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

- **Intent class:** Dangerous Capability

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for warning:** A postinstall lifecycle hook runs automatically., On global non-CI installs it creates a configuration file with integrations enabled., When its OpenClaw hook or plugin already exists, postinstall invokes its OpenClaw installer to refresh it., The installer copies and registers the package's realtime plugin in the user's OpenClaw extension area.

- **Evidence against:** The automatic path is limited to global installs and skips CI., The source shows package-owned ShieldCortex configuration and extension paths, not credential collection, network exfiltration, or a self-dependency chain.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to shieldcortex@5.0.4.

- Review the evidence and your use of shieldcortex@5.0.4 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/package.json>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 3. High: Ai Reviewer Manipulation
- **Category:** Social Engineering
- **Confidence:** 80.0%
- **Path:** README.md
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/README.md>)

Package text addresses the security reviewer or scanner and tries to influence the review outcome.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```markdown
shieldcortex scan "ignore previous instructions"
```

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

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 6. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/database/init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/database/init.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L9: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
L10: import { execSync } from 'child_process';
L11: import { runMigrations } from './migrations.js';
```

### 7. High: Shell
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/hooks.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/setup/hooks.js>)

Package source references shell execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L53: stdio: ['pipe', 'inherit', 'inherit'],
L54: shell: true,
L55: });
```

### 8. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/database/better-sqlite3-guard.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/database/better-sqlite3-guard.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L17: *  • REQUIRING the package resolves JAVASCRIPT ONLY. `lib/index.js` is
L18: *    `require('./database')(require('./binding').getBinding, true)`, which
L19: *    hands `getBinding` over as a FUNCTION; no `.node` file is opened. So the
```

### 9. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** hooks/openclaw/cortex-memory/handler.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/hooks/openclaw/cortex-memory/handler.ts>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
L54: 
L55: const NOVELTY_CACHE_FILE = path.join(homedir(), ".shieldcortex", "openclaw-memory-cache.json");
L56: const DEFAULT_NOVELTY_THRESHOLD = 0.88;
...
L118: try {
L119: const raw = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(NOVELTY_CACHE_FILE, "utf-8"));
L120: if (!Array.isArray(raw)) return [];
...
L629: const fsSync = await import("node:fs");
L630: const scDir = process.env.SHIELDCORTEX_CONFIG_DIR?.trim() || path.join(homedir(), ".shieldcortex");
L631: const cfgPath = path.join(scDir, "config.json");
...
L677: // the native driver from the package that supplied inject-pack.mjs, never
L678: // relative to this copied/self-healed handler. Prefer package.json as the
L679: // package-root anchor; the selected helper remains a correct ancestry anchor
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

### 12. Medium: Install Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/deep-clean.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/setup/deep-clean.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L21: import os from 'os';
L22: import { execFileSync, execSync } from 'child_process';
L23: import { gatewayRestartCommand } from './gateway-restart-command.js';
...
L33: function resolveHome() {
L34: const sudoUser = process.env.SUDO_USER;
L35: if (sudoUser && SAFE_USERNAME.test(sudoUser)) {
...
L48: }
L49: return os.homedir();
L50: }
...
L54: try {
L55: const parsed = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf-8'));
L56: return typeof parsed === 'object' && parsed !== null
```

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 14. High: Same File Env Network Execution
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/index.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L346: ║  Starting Next.js dashboard...                               ║
L347: ║  Dashboard: http://localhost:3030                            ║
L348: ║  API:       http://localhost:3001                            ║
...
L358: if (useStandalone && dashboardPath) {
L359: return spawn(process.execPath, ['server.js'], {
L360: cwd: dashboardPath.cwd,
L361: stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'pipe'],
L362: env: { ...process.env, PORT: '3030', HOSTNAME: '127.0.0.1' },
L363: });
```

### 15. High: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/next/dist/compiled/edge-runtime/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/compiled/edge-runtime/index.js>)

Source combines command execution, command-output handling, and outbound requests; review data flow before blocking.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: (()=>{var __webpack_modules__={462:e=>{e.exports='"use strict";var c=Object.defineProperty,f=Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor,y=Object.getOwnPropertyNames,S=Object.prototype.hasOwnP...
```

### 16. High: Sandbox Evasion Gated Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 84.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/next/dist/lib/typescript/runTypeScriptCli.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/lib/typescript/runTypeScriptCli.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

Source gates dangerous network, credential, or execution behavior behind CI, host, platform, time, or geo fingerprint checks.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
L36: const _nodepath = /*#__PURE__*/ _interop_require_default(require("node:path"));
L37: const _nodechild_process = require("node:child_process");
L38: const _crossspawn = /*#__PURE__*/ _interop_require_default(require("next/dist/compiled/cross-spawn"));
...
L49: try {
L50: packageJsonPath = (0, _resolvefrom.resolveFrom)(baseDir, "typescript/package.json");
L51: } catch  {
...
L53: }
L54: const packageJson = JSON.parse((0, _nodefs.readFileSync)(packageJsonPath, "utf8"));
L55: const packageDir = _nodepath.default.dirname(packageJsonPath);
...
L98: return new Promise((resolve, reject)=>{
L99: var _child_stdout, _child_stderr;
L100: const child = (0, _crossspawn.default)(process.execPath, [
```

### 17. High: External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/uninstall.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/setup/uninstall.js>)

Runtime or CLI source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Runtime or CLI code links a write operation to an explicit external AI-agent control path:
function blockagentuninstall() {
    if (isagentcontext()) {
        console.error('\n[shieldcortex] blocked: uninstall attempted from agent context.');
        console.error('sub-agents cannot uninstall shieldcortex.');
        console.error('only human operators can uninstall via interactive tty.\n');
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}
   
                                                  
                                              
   
export async function requireconfirmation(action) {
                                                      
    if (process.argv.includes('--confirm')) {
        return true;
    }
                                                 
    if (!process.stdi
```

### 18. High: Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/setup/openclaw.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/setup/openclaw.js>)

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation.
function openclawchildenv(extra = {}, home = resolveuserhome()) {
    return { ...process.env, home: home, openclaw_home: home, ...extra };
}
                                                          
export function __openclawchildenvfortest(home) {
    return home === undefined ? openclawchildenv() : openclawchildenv({}, home);
}
   
                                                                 
                                                                          
   
function isopenclawinstalled() {
                                               
    try {
        execsync('which openclaw', { encoding: 'utf-8', timeout: 5000 });
        return true;
    }
    catch {
```

### 19. High: Trigger Reachable Persistence
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** dist/service/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/service/install.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable persistence chain: scripts.start -> dist/index.js -> dist/service/install.js
L12: import os from 'os';
L13: import { execSync } from 'child_process';
L14: import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
...
L16: const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
L17: const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
L18: function detectPlatform() {
L19: switch (process.platform) {
L20: case 'darwin': return 'macos';
...
L25: function detectDefaultServiceMode(platform) {
L26: if (platform === 'linux' && !process.env.DISPLAY && !process.env.WAYLAND_DISPLAY) {
L27: return 'worker';
...
L44: // If that absolute path no longer exists, systemd will fail to open it
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 22. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** plugins/hermes/shieldcortex/sc\_client.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/plugins/hermes/shieldcortex/sc_client.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = plugins/hermes/shieldcortex/sc_client.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 13461
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 23. High: Ships High Entropy Blob
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/.next/server/app/apple-icon.png.body
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/.next/server/app/apple-icon.png.body>)

Package ships high-entropy non-source blobs.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
path = dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/.next/server/app/apple-icon.png.body
kind = high_entropy_blob
sizeBytes = 26212
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 24. High: Payload In Excluded Dir
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** plugins/hermes/shieldcortex/tests/test\_client\_policy.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/plugins/hermes/shieldcortex/tests/test_client_policy.py>)

Package hides binary, compressed, or executable-looking payloads in test/fixture/hidden paths.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = [redacted]test_client_policy.py
kind = payload_in_excluded_dir
sizeBytes = 17732
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 25. 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.

### 26. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/next/dist/build/next-config-ts/transpile-config.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/build/next-config-ts/transpile-config.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 51
```

### 27. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/cli/doctor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/cli/doctor.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/cli/doctor.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 28. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/index.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 29. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** scripts/postinstall.mjs
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/scripts/postinstall.mjs>)

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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = scripts/postinstall.mjs
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 30. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/next/dist/build/utils.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/build/utils.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/build/utils.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 31. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/defence/iron-dome/tool-action-guard.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/defence/iron-dome/tool-action-guard.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/defence/iron-dome/tool-action-guard.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 32. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/defence/skill-scanner/scan-skill.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/defence/skill-scanner/scan-skill.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/defence/skill-scanner/scan-skill.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 33. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/integrations/openclaw-gateway-roster.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/integrations/openclaw-gateway-roster.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/integrations/openclaw-gateway-roster.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 34. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/service/install.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/service/install.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/service/install.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 35. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/@next/env/dist/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/%40next/env/dist/index.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/@next/env/dist/index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 36. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node\_modules/next/dist/build/next-config-ts/transpile-config.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/build/next-config-ts/transpile-config.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dashboard/.next/standalone/dashboard/node_modules/next/dist/build/next-config-ts/transpile-config.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 37. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/api/routes/xray.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/api/routes/xray.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/api/routes/xray.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 38. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** dist/audit/dependency-scanner.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/shieldcortex@5.0.4/dist/audit/dependency-scanner.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 = shieldcortex@5.0.1
matchedPath = dist/audit/dependency-scanner.js
matchedIdentity = npm:c2hpZWxkY29ydGV4:5.0.1
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, prepublishOnly
- **Dependencies:** 8
- **Optional dependencies:** 1
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 11
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 9

### Published dependency entries
- @modelcontextprotocol/sdk ^1.0.0 (Dependency)
- better-sqlite3 ^13.0.3 (Dependency)
- cors ^2.8.5 (Dependency)
- express ^5.2.1 (Dependency)
- safe-regex2 ^5.0.0 (Dependency)
- semver ^7.7.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.18.0 (Dependency)
- zod ^3.23.0 (Dependency)
- @huggingface/transformers ^3.7.2 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** shieldcortex
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.4
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-13T17:51:32.554Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T06:08:46.388Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-30T15:01:59.647Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 5.2.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Trustworthy memory and security for AI agents. Memory firewall for any host that writes through it; runtime tool gates on Claude Code, OpenClaw, and Hermes.
- **Author:** Michael Kyriacou
- **Maintainers:** cyborgninja
- **Keywords:** ai-memory, persistent-memory, agent-memory, ai-brain, knowledge-graph, memory-decay, context-persistence, claude-code-memory, codex, codex-vscode, claude-memory, openclaw
- **Runtime engines:** node: ^22.14.0 || \>=24.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 2355
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 26,685,339 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/shieldcortex/v/5.0.4>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Drakon-Systems-Ltd/ShieldCortex>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Drakon-Systems-Ltd/ShieldCortex#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Drakon-Systems-Ltd/ShieldCortex/issues>)
