---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/syboy/v/1.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/syboy/v/1.0.0.md"
package: "syboy"
report_status: "published"
title: "syboy@1.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.0"
---

# syboy@1.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14212 confirms this npm version as malicious. On invocation, index.js spawns start\_tool.vbs via wscript.exe with detached/windowsHide flags; the VBS calls ShellExecute cmd.exe with the 'runas' verb and window state 0 to silently launch pointer.py under Administrator with no console, then the Node process exits leaving a hidden elevated background process. pointer.py reads the clipboard continuously, captures screenshots via mss/ImageGrab, walks the UI...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T03:25:04.801Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Download time:** 262 ms
- **Static scan time:** 21 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 284 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

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

Package declares npm scripts.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 6. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** pointer.py
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/syboy@1.0.0/pointer.py>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```python
path = pointer.py
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 38030
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 7. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

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

## 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:** syboy
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-08-16T19:07:01.167Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/syboy/v/1.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14212>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/syboy/v/1.0.0>)