---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysau"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysau/report.md"
package: "sysau"
report_status: "published"
title: "sysau@1.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.3"
---

# sysau@1.0.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5615 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-5615 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-5615 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package advertises itself as a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships pointer.py (spawned by index.js) which hardcodes VERCEL\_API\_URL='https://iq-overlay-pointer.vercel.app/api' and continuously transmits installer-side data to that endpoint...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Finished:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

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

## Security analysis

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to sysau@1.0.3.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 1.0.0, 1.0.3.

- Avoid installing sysau@1.0.3. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package advertises itself as a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships pointer.py (spawned by index.js) which hardcodes VERCEL\_API\_URL='https://iq-overlay-pointer.vercel.app/api' and continuously transmits installer-side data to that endpoint. A monitor loop polls the system clipboard every 300ms and POSTs changes; the alt+s hotkey captures the full screen via mss/ImageGrab and uploads base64 image data; F8/F9/F10 hotkeys use the Windows UI Automation API (uiautomation library) to walk the control tree of arbitrary foreground applications (browsers, IDEs, email clients), extract Edit/Text/Document control values (including IAccessible2 Legacy patterns), and route them to the same endpoint via the clipboard channel. To enable this on machines without Python, index.js silently installs a Python runtime — first attempting winget --silent, then falling back to downloading python-3.12.3-amd64.exe from python.org to %TEMP% and executing it with \`/quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1\` (comments in the script describe this as 'GHOST INSTALLER... No UI, No Admin Popup'). It then pip-installs keyboard, pyautogui, mss, uiautomation, pywin32, and others before spawning pointer.py. pointer.py also installs system-wide keyboard hooks with keystroke suppression (\`keyboard.on\_press(..., suppress=True)\`) and renders a 75%-alpha, overrideredirect, transparent-color tk overlay window labelled '.' — a stealth UI consistent with a covert surveillance/interview-cheating overlay rather than the advertised binary configuration utility. None of this behavior is disclosed in the package metadata.

## 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:** sysau
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysau>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-5615>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sysau/v/1.0.0>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sysau/v/1.0.3>)