npm PACKAGE

@cyclonedx/cdxgen 12.9.0

Warn

PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 12 hours ago·Published 22 October 2026

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Why

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects suspicious autostart persistence mechanisms

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects destructive operations (recursive deletion, wiping)

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects access to sensitive files (credentials, configs, keys)

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects URLs to suspicious domains often used for exfiltration or C2

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects URLs to URL shorteners, file sharing, and suspicious services

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects download-and-execute patterns: fetching a remote file then executing it

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects PowerShell encoded commands, hidden windows, and download cradles

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects base64 decoding followed by code execution

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Possible credential in the published package: generic-api-key

Provenance

A registry signature proves the registry served these bytes unaltered. Build provenance proves which workflow built them from which commit; a stolen publishing token can fake the first but not the second.

Signature
Verified against the registry's key
Build provenance
Attested · source commit ↗

What the code does

On its own this is weak signal: plenty of honest libraries read files or talk to the network. What PkgFire watches is a release gaining something the one before it did not.

Code reading

PkgFire's own reading of the files: what the code can do.

  • code-credentialsbin/audit.js, bin/cdxgen.js, lib/cli/index.js, lib/cli/index.poku.js, lib/helpers/aiOversightCollector.js
  • code-evallib/helpers/analyzer.poku.js
  • code-execlib/cli/index.poku.js, lib/helpers/analyzer.js, lib/helpers/analyzer.poku.js, lib/helpers/bomSignerCli.poku.js, lib/helpers/envcontext.js
  • code-networkbin/cdxgen.js, lib/cli/index.poku.js, lib/helpers/aiCollector.poku.js, lib/helpers/analyzer.js, lib/helpers/analyzer.poku.js

Source patterns

Patterns found in the source, including those malware is known to use.

  • capability-filesystem-browser
  • capability-filesystem-delete
  • capability-filesystem-read
  • capability-filesystem-write-executable
  • capability-network-download
  • capability-network-lolbas
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-schedule
  • capability-process-spawn
  • threat-filesystem-autostart
  • threat-filesystem-destruction
  • threat-filesystem-read
  • threat-network-exfiltration
  • threat-network-outbound-shady-links
  • threat-process-download-exec
  • threat-process-powershell-encoded
  • threat-runtime-environment-read
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation-base64exec

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