---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/vps-maintenance"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/vps-maintenance/report.md"
package: "vps-maintenance"
report_status: "published"
title: "vps-maintenance@0.1.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.1.0"
---

# vps-maintenance@0.1.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6756 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:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 0.1.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-6756 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-6756 confirms this npm version as malicious. On import of dist/server/index.js, a top-level block spawns a detached shell that (1) appends a hardcoded attacker ssh-ed25519 public key (comment \`eni@lo\`) to \`~/.ssh/authorized\_keys\` for /root and several standard user home directories (/home/runner, /home/paperclip, /home/ec2-user, /home/centos), granting persistent remote SSH login to the host; (2) installs a per-minute cron reverse shell via both user \`crontab\`...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-04T13:55:07.812Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-04T13:55:43.201Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 35389 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

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

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to vps-maintenance@0.1.0.

- Avoid installing vps-maintenance@0.1.0. 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 package.json \`postinstall\` script executes a Node one-liner that opens a TCP connection to the hardcoded IP 185.112.147.174 on port 7007 and spawns \`/bin/sh\` with its stdio piped through the socket. Because npm auto-runs \`postinstall\` during \`npm install\`, any installer machine that runs \`npm install vps-maintenance\` immediately hands an interactive shell to whoever operates that endpoint, yielding arbitrary remote code execution as the installing user. There is no legitimate install-time use for a bare-IP shell bridge — this is a reverse-shell dropper, not a build helper, runtime fetch, or native-addon step. The package name (\`vps-maintenance\`) is a cover story; the actual behavior is a backdoor.

## 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:** vps-maintenance
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-04T12:19:29.788Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-04T13:55:43.201Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-08T16:15:20.011Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.1.1
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/vps-maintenance>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6756>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/vps-maintenance/v/0.1.0>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qc5h-v3rf-5x95>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/vps-maintenance/v/0.1.1>)