npm PACKAGE

pm2 7.1.1

Warn

PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 13 hours ago·Published 23 October 2026

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Why

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects suspicious autostart persistence mechanisms

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

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

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

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

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects HTTP/HTTPS URL dependencies in package.json (dependency confusion, untrusted sources)

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

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

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects extensive system/network enumeration activities

  • 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
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-evallib/Common.js, modules/blessed/lib/tput.js
  • code-execlib/API/Containerizer.js, lib/API/ExtraMgmt/Docker.js, lib/API/LogManagement.js, lib/API/Modules/LOCAL.js, lib/API/Modules/NPM.js
  • code-networklib/API/Modules/TAR.js, lib/API/Serve.js, lib/API/pm2-plus/auth-strategies/CliAuth.js, lib/API/pm2-plus/auth-strategies/WebAuth.js, lib/HttpInterface.js

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-lolbas
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-schedule
  • capability-process-spawn
  • threat-filesystem-autostart
  • threat-filesystem-read
  • threat-network-outbound-shady-links
  • threat-npm-http-dependency
  • threat-process-download-exec
  • threat-process-memory
  • threat-process-spawn-silent
  • threat-process-sysinfo
  • threat-runtime-enumeration
  • threat-runtime-environment-read
  • threat-runtime-system-info

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