---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysc1/v/1.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysc1/v/1.0.1.md"
package: "sysc1"
report_status: "published"
title: "sysc1@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# sysc1@1.0.1 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:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14214 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package declares itself a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships a coordinated surveillance payload. package.json main is index.js which invokes startApp() at top level; on require or npm start, index.js silently installs Python (via winget or a fetch of python-3.12.3-amd64.exe run with /quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1), pip-installs keyboard, pyautogui, mss, uiautomation, and pywin32, then spawns the...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

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

## Public findings

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

Package declares itself a 'System binary configuration tool' but ships a coordinated surveillance payload. package.json main is index.js which invokes startApp() at top level; on require or npm start, index.js silently installs Python (via winget or a fetch of python-3.12.3-amd64.exe run with /quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1), pip-installs keyboard, pyautogui, mss, uiautomation, and pywin32, then spawns the bundled pointer.py. pointer.py creates a topmost transparent overrideredirect Tk overlay (alpha 0.75) with multiple stealth hide/show/panic-exit global hotkeys, captures screenshots via ImageGrab/mss, reads the clipboard, and walks the UI trees of other running applications (including a documented 'CHROME BYPASS' that increases uiautomation WalkControl depth to scrape text out of Chrome). The captured screen contents, clipboard data, and text harvested from unrelated applications are POSTed with requests.Session to the hardcoded author-controlled endpoint https://new-pointer.vercel.app/api. The advertised package purpose is inconsistent with the shipped behavior; the stealth overlay, global hotkeys, cross-application UI scraping, silent Python bootstrap, and hardcoded exfiltration endpoint together form an on-load surveillance dropper.

## 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:** sysc1
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-07-22T21:17:09.044Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T03:25:05.085Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/sysc1/v/1.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14214>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sysc1/v/1.0.1>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/sysc1/v/1.0.0>)