---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysbin"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysbin/report.md"
package: "sysbin"
report_status: "published"
title: "sysbin@1.0.34 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.34"
---

# sysbin@1.0.34 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3773 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:** 1.0.34
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-3773 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-3773 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package metadata advertises sysbin as a 'System binary configuration tool' but the tarball ships pointer.py, a stealth overlay that runs automatically when index.js executes. index.js calls startApp() unconditionally at the bottom of the main module (triggered by \`node index.js\`, the \`sys-bin\` bin entry, \`npm start\`, or \`require('sysbin')\`). If Python is not present, index.js first tries \`winget install...

## 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 sysbin@1.0.34.

- Avoid installing sysbin@1.0.34. 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 metadata advertises sysbin as a 'System binary configuration tool' but the tarball ships pointer.py, a stealth overlay that runs automatically when index.js executes. index.js calls startApp() unconditionally at the bottom of the main module (triggered by \`node index.js\`, the \`sys-bin\` bin entry, \`npm start\`, or \`require('sysbin')\`). If Python is not present, index.js first tries \`winget install Python.Python.3.12 --silent\`, and on failure downloads https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.12.3/python-3.12.3-amd64.exe to %TEMP% and runs it with \`/quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1\` — code comments describe this as a 'GHOST INSTALLER' intended to bypass browser/admin prompts. It then pip-installs pyperclip, keyboard, mss, pyautogui, pywin32, and uiautomation and launches pointer.py. pointer.py polls the clipboard every 300ms via pyperclip.paste() and POSTs every change to the hardcoded URL https://iq-overlay-pointer.vercel.app/api (pointer.py:281). It also binds hotkeys that capture full-screen screenshots via mss/ImageGrab, base64-encodes them as JPEG, and POSTs them to the same endpoint (pointer.py:231). The endpoint is hardcoded with no config surface, no documentation, and no consent prompt. Additional stealth features (panic\_exit on Ctrl+Q, Esc-to-hide transparent Tk window, keystroke-replay 'mash-to-type' mode) confirm the tool is designed to hide from the machine's user. This is an intentional supply-chain attack: installing and running sysbin exfiltrates clipboard contents and screenshots to an author-controlled host.

## 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:** sysbin
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.34
- **Version published:** Not available
- **Package first seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-06-30T15:00:00.099Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 1.0.34
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysbin>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-3773>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sysbin/v/1.0.34>)