---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tldriver/v/0.0.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tldriver/v/0.0.1.md"
package: "tldriver"
report_status: "published"
title: "tldriver@0.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.1"
---

# tldriver@0.0.1 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:** 0.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-16384 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-16384 confirms this npm version as malicious. The npm package tldriver@0.0.1 contains byte-identical scripts/preinstall.js and scripts/postinstall.js that are heavily obfuscated using obfuscator.io-style string-array indirection (identifiers such as \_0x5694, \_0x5c7e) to hide their URLs, filenames, and shell commands. On install, the scripts perform an https.get to the anonymous third-party image host https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png, write the...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **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 tldriver@0.0.1.

- Avoid installing tldriver@0.0.1. 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%

The npm package tldriver@0.0.1 contains byte-identical scripts/preinstall.js and scripts/postinstall.js that are heavily obfuscated using obfuscator.io-style string-array indirection (identifiers such as \_0x5694, \_0x5c7e) to hide their URLs, filenames, and shell commands. On install, the scripts perform an https.get to the anonymous third-party image host https://api.imghippo.com/files/hOG8244hc.png, write the returned bytes to the package directory as gldriver\_pre\_core.exe and gldriver\_pre\_asset.exe, and then execute them via a platform-branched shell call (mspaint on Windows, open on macOS, xdg-open on Linux) before deleting the files and writing a.pre\_setup\_complete marker. The package identity is inconsistent with its shipped code: package.json declares the name tldriver, README instructs \`npm install googledriver\`, and index.js exports a class documented as GoogleDriver wrapping Google APIs, while the lib/ directory contains plausible-looking Google OAuth/Drive/Calendar/Maps modules that are never required by index.js. The declared library surface functions as a cover story; the operative behavior is the lifecycle-time fetch and execution of opaque bytes from a mutable third-party host, which lets the operator of that host deliver arbitrary code to any installer at any time.

## 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:** tldriver
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-09-22T03:46:34.794Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-22T16:05:05.982Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tldriver/v/0.0.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-16384>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/tldriver/v/0.0.1>)