OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14194 confirms this npm version as malicious. Package advertises itself as a system performance monitoring helper, but its package.json declares a postinstall hook (`node install.js`) that opens a TCP socket and pipes a spawned OS shell (`/bin/sh` on Unix, `cmd.exe` on Windows) stdin/stdout/stderr through it, with auto-reconnect and a keep-alive interval — a canonical reverse-shell backdoor executed automatically on `npm install`...
This report applies to system-performance-helper@1.0.1.
1.0.0, 1.0.1
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This report uses published external intelligence. The advisory does not provide a separate source-code analysis for each listed version.