npm PACKAGE

chromatic 18.13.2

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PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 41 hours ago·Published 21 October 2026

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Why

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects suspicious autostart persistence mechanisms

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects advanced API call obfuscation using introspection and reflection techniques

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects steganography decode followed by code execution

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects unicode homoglyphs and uncommon characters used for obfuscation

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Difference between manifest and package.json found: scripts: storybook: Manifest("cross-env FORCE_COLOR=3 TERM=xterm-256color storybook dev -p 9009"), package.json("None") lint:js: Manifest("cross-env NODE_ENV=production eslint --cache --cache-location=.cache/eslint --report-unused-disable-directives"), package.json("None") postpack: Manifest("clean-package restore"), package.json("None") typescript:check: Manifest("tsc --project ./tsconfig.json --noEmit"), package.json("None") build-storybook: Manifest("cross-env FORCE_COLOR=3 TERM=xterm-256color storybook build --stats-json"), package.json("None") chromatic: Manifest("./dist/bin.cjs"), package.json("None") build: Manifest("clean-package && tsdown && clean-package restore"), package.json("None") chromatic-staging: Manifest("CHROMATIC_INDEX_URL=https://www.staging-chromatic.com ./dist/bin.cjs"), package.json("None") release: Manifest("./scripts/release.mjs"), package.json("None") prepack: Manifest("clean-package"), package.json("None") release-next: Manifest("./scripts/releaseNext.mjs"), package.json("None") chromatic-verbose: Manifest("cross-env LOG_LEVEL=verbose ./dist/bin.cjs"), package.json("None") trim-stats: Manifest("./dist/bin.cjs trim-stats-file"), package.json("None") prepare: Manifest("yarn run build"), package.json("None") clean:sourcemaps: Manifest("rm -f dist/*.map && rm -f action/*.map"), package.json("None") publish-action: Manifest("./scripts/publishAction.mjs"), package.json("None") trace: Manifest("./dist/bin.cjs trace"), package.json("None") lint:package: Manifest("sort-package-json"), package.json("None") lint: Manifest("yarn lint:js bin-src node-src ./isChromatic.js ./isChromatic.mjs"), package.json("None") test: Manifest("vitest run --coverage"), package.json("None") chromatic-prebuilt: Manifest("./dist/bin.cjs --storybook-build-dir="storybook-static""), package.json("None") dev: Manifest("tsdown --watch"), package.json("None")

  • 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-encoded-blobdist/main-C5u7PzTo.cjs
  • code-execdist/execa-CoW7oosm.cjs, dist/meow-BcLCtnkU.cjs, dist/noPackageJson-XI_fi2hi.cjs, dist/node-src-BW4FgfsB.cjs
  • code-networkdist/build-BzcoQsye.cjs, dist/getStorybookProjectRoot-B7Sqzt-y.cjs, dist/noPackageJson-XI_fi2hi.cjs, dist/node-src-BW4FgfsB.cjs

Source patterns

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

  • capability-filesystem-delete
  • capability-filesystem-read
  • capability-filesystem-write-executable
  • capability-network-download
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-schedule
  • capability-process-spawn
  • metadata_mismatch
  • threat-filesystem-autostart
  • threat-runtime-environment-read
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation-api
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation-steganography
  • threat-runtime-obfuscation-unicode

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