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The code is heavily obfuscated and uses eval to execute potentially arbitrary code, which is a significant security risk. The obfuscation and use of eval are common in malicious scripts, suggesting potential malicious intent. However, without deobfuscating the code, the exact purpose remains unclear.

Live on npm for 4 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

This script gathers sensitive host metadata (hostname, local username, current working directory, IPv4 addresses) and transmits them immediately to an externally controlled server by default (hardcoded IP). Behavior strongly resembles covert telemetry/exfiltration. Unless you explicitly trust the destination and intended behavior, remove or block this code, audit systems for execution, and investigate how it was introduced into the dependency tree. Treat as high-risk/malicious until validated.

High risk. The package runs an extract-tokens script automatically on install (postinstall) and provides tooling that can harvest tokens and send invites. Combined with screen-capture capability and the suspicious self-dependency, this package is likely to perform credential theft and unsolicited account actions. Do not install on any machine with credentials or sensitive data; inspect the referenced scripts (bin/extract-tokens.js, bin/preinstall.js, bin/start-bot.js, etc.) in a safe, offline environment before considering use.

This package contains a preinstall script that sends the contents of /opt to an external webhook. This is malicious telemetry/data exfiltration executed during installation and should be considered high risk. Do not install this package on any system where you care about confidentiality or integrity.

[Skill Scanner] Pipe-to-shell or eval pattern detected (AITech 9.1.4) [CI013]

This module performs an unverified download of a remote repository and runs native build commands on the fetched code. While it does not itself contain explicit malware-like payloads (no obfuscated downloader, no direct credential collection, no eval), it introduces a significant supply-chain and execution risk: arbitrary remote code can be compiled and executed via the build process. Use of this code without strong controls (pinning to an exact known-good commit, verifying checksums or signatures, and running builds in a sandboxed environment) is unsafe. The observed bug (returning 'Non') should be fixed.

Live on pypi for 12 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.

The source code is a configuration for a cryptocurrency mining setup that loads an external mining script. While the snippet itself contains no executable logic or direct malicious code, the presence of an external minerUrl and developer fee strongly indicates mining activity. This behavior can be considered malicious if performed without explicit user consent, as it consumes system resources and may degrade performance. No obfuscation is evident in the snippet, but the external script could be obfuscated. Given these factors, the package poses a moderate to high security risk primarily due to potential unauthorized mining.

This file is a blob of HTML/spam content with embedded links to adult videos, torrent downloads and suspicious redirectors (e.g. https://2023[.]redircdn[.]com/?…, http://rmdown[.]com/link[.]php?hash=…, http://data[.]down2048[.]com/list[.]php?…), plus numerous third-party image URLs. No executable code or proven malware payload is present, but the obfuscated redirects and torrent links pose a high risk of phishing, drive-by downloads or exposure to illicit content. Such anomalous content should be quarantined and removed from any legitimate software dependency.

This module is a clear malicious backdoor/supply-chain trojan. It harvests data from a local system file at load time, keeps that secret in memory, globally intercepts all HTTP servers in the host process, and exfiltrates the secret via modified HTTP responses and a dedicated endpoint. It also logs the secret to stdout. Do not include or load this package in any environment. Remove and rotate any potentially exposed secrets and audit systems where this module was present.

This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.

This fragment provides a remote command execution channel with possible interactive sessions, but it harbors significant security risks due to untrusted pickle deserialization and absence of authentication. The combination of remote control capabilities and insecure data handling makes it a high-risk component in a supply-chain context unless properly secured, authenticated, and sandboxed. The apparent truncation further raises concerns about reliability and cleanup.

The code unconditionally executes a packaged shell script on Linux at import time with inherited stdio and package-directory working directory. The JS itself doesn't contain explicit malicious payloads, but this pattern is a high supply-chain risk: it grants any contents of inject_and_init.sh the ability to execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges, interact with the terminal, read environment variables, and access the filesystem and network. Treat the package as potentially dangerous unless you can audit or control the script contents and provenance. Recommend removing automatic execution, adding explicit opt-in APIs, verifying script integrity (signatures/hashes), avoiding inherited stdio, and performing existence and content checks before execution.

The code exhibits suspicious behavior by sending userId data to a hardcoded external IP address over unencrypted HTTP without authentication or user consent. This pattern is indicative of potential data exfiltration or privacy violation, which aligns with malware-like behavior. While the code itself is not obfuscated and does not contain explicit backdoors or credential leaks, the hardcoded external endpoint and silent error handling increase the security risk. Overall, this code should be treated as high risk and potentially malicious.

This fragment intends to install and start KasmVNC by running many shell commands that create certs, write VNC password files, adjust group membership, and launch a VNC server. The primary security issues are unsafe shell interpolation (command injection risk), programmatic persistence of a possibly predictable password, execution with sudo based on unvalidated env vars, starting a VNC server exposed on 0.0.0.0 with disabled/basic auth, and multiple unsafe filesystem operations performed via shell. There is no clear evidence of obfuscated or direct exfiltration malware, but the behavior can provide an unauthorized remote access vector (backdoor-like) if used maliciously. Do not run this code without fixing shell usage, validating inputs, using secure randomly generated passwords, enforcing proper file permissions, and not disabling authentication.

This module is a scripting engine that intentionally evaluates and executes instructions read from disk and runtime inputs. It therefore contains dangerous capabilities (eval and os.system) that can lead to arbitrary code execution and unauthorized actions if an attacker can control function files or input data. There is no evidence the code itself is intentionally malicious (no obfuscation or hardcoded backdoors), but its design is high-risk for supply-chain or local-file attacks. Treat as unsafe to use in environments where file contents or inputs are not fully trusted.

Live on pypi for 5 hours and 53 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code poses a high security risk and may contain potentially malicious behavior. It is crucial to conduct a detailed security review and implement proper input validation and sanitization to mitigate the identified risks.

Live on npm for 96 days, 3 hours and 13 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code is highly obfuscated and uses 'exec()' to run potentially harmful operations. This poses a significant security risk due to the possibility of executing arbitrary and malicious code. Decoding and analyzing the hidden content is necessary to fully understand the threat.

Live on pypi for 1 day, 22 hours and 28 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.

This file is a high-risk catalog of HTML dangling-markup payloads explicitly designed to bypass CSP/script restrictions and exfiltrate page content to an attacker-controlled domain. Treat entries as malicious input: do not render or store them where they could reach HTML rendering contexts without strict sanitization and CSP. Remediation: remove or quarantine the catalog if not required for legitimate testing, sanitize/escape user input, enforce strict CSP and origin restrictions for resource/form targets, and audit any places that reflect user-supplied HTML.

No clear evidence of deliberately malicious functionality (no network exfiltration, reverse shells, or hardcoded secrets). However, the module contains multiple insecure coding patterns that allow remote code execution and SQL injection when fed untrusted inputs: unsafe pickle deserialization, exec() on formatted strings, and many SQL statements constructed via string interpolation without robust sanitization. Treat this package as risky to use in untrusted environments. Recommend removing or sandboxing pickle usage, eliminating exec() in favor of safe DataFrame APIs, and using safer SQL handling (validate and whitelist identifiers or use parameterized queries where possible).

Live on pypi for 1 hour and 31 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code exhibits behavior consistent with malicious activity by collecting and transmitting sensitive system information to a suspicious domain without user consent.

The code is heavily obfuscated and uses eval to execute potentially arbitrary code, which is a significant security risk. The obfuscation and use of eval are common in malicious scripts, suggesting potential malicious intent. However, without deobfuscating the code, the exact purpose remains unclear.

Live on npm for 4 days, 7 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

This script gathers sensitive host metadata (hostname, local username, current working directory, IPv4 addresses) and transmits them immediately to an externally controlled server by default (hardcoded IP). Behavior strongly resembles covert telemetry/exfiltration. Unless you explicitly trust the destination and intended behavior, remove or block this code, audit systems for execution, and investigate how it was introduced into the dependency tree. Treat as high-risk/malicious until validated.

High risk. The package runs an extract-tokens script automatically on install (postinstall) and provides tooling that can harvest tokens and send invites. Combined with screen-capture capability and the suspicious self-dependency, this package is likely to perform credential theft and unsolicited account actions. Do not install on any machine with credentials or sensitive data; inspect the referenced scripts (bin/extract-tokens.js, bin/preinstall.js, bin/start-bot.js, etc.) in a safe, offline environment before considering use.

This package contains a preinstall script that sends the contents of /opt to an external webhook. This is malicious telemetry/data exfiltration executed during installation and should be considered high risk. Do not install this package on any system where you care about confidentiality or integrity.

[Skill Scanner] Pipe-to-shell or eval pattern detected (AITech 9.1.4) [CI013]

This module performs an unverified download of a remote repository and runs native build commands on the fetched code. While it does not itself contain explicit malware-like payloads (no obfuscated downloader, no direct credential collection, no eval), it introduces a significant supply-chain and execution risk: arbitrary remote code can be compiled and executed via the build process. Use of this code without strong controls (pinning to an exact known-good commit, verifying checksums or signatures, and running builds in a sandboxed environment) is unsafe. The observed bug (returning 'Non') should be fixed.

Live on pypi for 12 hours and 38 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.

The source code is a configuration for a cryptocurrency mining setup that loads an external mining script. While the snippet itself contains no executable logic or direct malicious code, the presence of an external minerUrl and developer fee strongly indicates mining activity. This behavior can be considered malicious if performed without explicit user consent, as it consumes system resources and may degrade performance. No obfuscation is evident in the snippet, but the external script could be obfuscated. Given these factors, the package poses a moderate to high security risk primarily due to potential unauthorized mining.

This file is a blob of HTML/spam content with embedded links to adult videos, torrent downloads and suspicious redirectors (e.g. https://2023[.]redircdn[.]com/?…, http://rmdown[.]com/link[.]php?hash=…, http://data[.]down2048[.]com/list[.]php?…), plus numerous third-party image URLs. No executable code or proven malware payload is present, but the obfuscated redirects and torrent links pose a high risk of phishing, drive-by downloads or exposure to illicit content. Such anomalous content should be quarantined and removed from any legitimate software dependency.

This module is a clear malicious backdoor/supply-chain trojan. It harvests data from a local system file at load time, keeps that secret in memory, globally intercepts all HTTP servers in the host process, and exfiltrates the secret via modified HTTP responses and a dedicated endpoint. It also logs the secret to stdout. Do not include or load this package in any environment. Remove and rotate any potentially exposed secrets and audit systems where this module was present.

This code implements an insecure, unauthenticated RPC mechanism that allows remote clients to cause arbitrary code execution and exfiltrate files/system information. Using pickle over an untrusted network and invoking methods by client-supplied names are severe supply-chain/backdoor risks. Do not deploy or reuse this code in production; it should be treated as a backdoor/untrusted remote-execution component unless wrapped with strong authentication, authorization, sandboxing, and safe serialization.

This fragment provides a remote command execution channel with possible interactive sessions, but it harbors significant security risks due to untrusted pickle deserialization and absence of authentication. The combination of remote control capabilities and insecure data handling makes it a high-risk component in a supply-chain context unless properly secured, authenticated, and sandboxed. The apparent truncation further raises concerns about reliability and cleanup.

The code unconditionally executes a packaged shell script on Linux at import time with inherited stdio and package-directory working directory. The JS itself doesn't contain explicit malicious payloads, but this pattern is a high supply-chain risk: it grants any contents of inject_and_init.sh the ability to execute arbitrary commands with the user's privileges, interact with the terminal, read environment variables, and access the filesystem and network. Treat the package as potentially dangerous unless you can audit or control the script contents and provenance. Recommend removing automatic execution, adding explicit opt-in APIs, verifying script integrity (signatures/hashes), avoiding inherited stdio, and performing existence and content checks before execution.

The code exhibits suspicious behavior by sending userId data to a hardcoded external IP address over unencrypted HTTP without authentication or user consent. This pattern is indicative of potential data exfiltration or privacy violation, which aligns with malware-like behavior. While the code itself is not obfuscated and does not contain explicit backdoors or credential leaks, the hardcoded external endpoint and silent error handling increase the security risk. Overall, this code should be treated as high risk and potentially malicious.

This fragment intends to install and start KasmVNC by running many shell commands that create certs, write VNC password files, adjust group membership, and launch a VNC server. The primary security issues are unsafe shell interpolation (command injection risk), programmatic persistence of a possibly predictable password, execution with sudo based on unvalidated env vars, starting a VNC server exposed on 0.0.0.0 with disabled/basic auth, and multiple unsafe filesystem operations performed via shell. There is no clear evidence of obfuscated or direct exfiltration malware, but the behavior can provide an unauthorized remote access vector (backdoor-like) if used maliciously. Do not run this code without fixing shell usage, validating inputs, using secure randomly generated passwords, enforcing proper file permissions, and not disabling authentication.

This module is a scripting engine that intentionally evaluates and executes instructions read from disk and runtime inputs. It therefore contains dangerous capabilities (eval and os.system) that can lead to arbitrary code execution and unauthorized actions if an attacker can control function files or input data. There is no evidence the code itself is intentionally malicious (no obfuscation or hardcoded backdoors), but its design is high-risk for supply-chain or local-file attacks. Treat as unsafe to use in environments where file contents or inputs are not fully trusted.

Live on pypi for 5 hours and 53 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code poses a high security risk and may contain potentially malicious behavior. It is crucial to conduct a detailed security review and implement proper input validation and sanitization to mitigate the identified risks.

Live on npm for 96 days, 3 hours and 13 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code is highly obfuscated and uses 'exec()' to run potentially harmful operations. This poses a significant security risk due to the possibility of executing arbitrary and malicious code. Decoding and analyzing the hidden content is necessary to fully understand the threat.

Live on pypi for 1 day, 22 hours and 28 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code exposes powerful administrative actions: arbitrary shell execution, arbitrary file reads, full environment dumps, and building/pushing Docker images to a hardcoded registry. These are not obfuscated but are high-risk capabilities that can be abused for data exfiltration, remote code execution, and supply-chain leakage if the superuser authentication is compromised or misconfigured. The presence of a hardcoded remote image name for docker push is suspicious for unintended outbound artifact exfiltration. Recommendation: avoid including these endpoints in public packages or ensure strict, auditable authentication and input validation; remove hardcoded push targets and avoid returning full environment variables or arbitrary file contents.

This file is a high-risk catalog of HTML dangling-markup payloads explicitly designed to bypass CSP/script restrictions and exfiltrate page content to an attacker-controlled domain. Treat entries as malicious input: do not render or store them where they could reach HTML rendering contexts without strict sanitization and CSP. Remediation: remove or quarantine the catalog if not required for legitimate testing, sanitize/escape user input, enforce strict CSP and origin restrictions for resource/form targets, and audit any places that reflect user-supplied HTML.

No clear evidence of deliberately malicious functionality (no network exfiltration, reverse shells, or hardcoded secrets). However, the module contains multiple insecure coding patterns that allow remote code execution and SQL injection when fed untrusted inputs: unsafe pickle deserialization, exec() on formatted strings, and many SQL statements constructed via string interpolation without robust sanitization. Treat this package as risky to use in untrusted environments. Recommend removing or sandboxing pickle usage, eliminating exec() in favor of safe DataFrame APIs, and using safer SQL handling (validate and whitelist identifiers or use parameterized queries where possible).

Live on pypi for 1 hour and 31 minutes before removal. Socket users were protected even while the package was live.

The code exhibits behavior consistent with malicious activity by collecting and transmitting sensitive system information to a suspicious domain without user consent.