npm PACKAGE

@vscode/deviceid 0.1.6

Warn

PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 33 minutes ago·Published 9 November 2026

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Why

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Binary file/s detected in package: 1db12903faa5359c366720c6e7d2a0398f3429c41f57eb20bba80da27137fdfe: @vscode+deviceid.node (exe) c6425b4d11c8c860344b28b3b3c7b962b2d2120c7e994e66bb81cc148e9cef6e: @vscode+deviceid.node (exe)

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    3 new behaviours since 0.1.5

  • warnRelease cooldown

    Published 8 hours ago, inside the 7-day cooldown. Most malicious releases are pulled within hours of publication, so a version this new has not yet had time to be caught.

  • warnInstall script added

    The install script is new or changed since 0.1.5: install "node scripts/install.mjs". A release that starts running code on install is how event-stream, ua-parser-js and the 2025 npm worms spread. It was already installed before this scan.

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
None, and no earlier version had any

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-execscripts/install.mjs
  • code-native-binaryprebuilds/win32-arm64/@vscode+deviceid.node, prebuilds/win32-x64/@vscode+deviceid.node
  • install-execscripts/install.mjs

Source patterns

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

  • bundled_binary
  • capability-filesystem-read
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-hooks

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