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Specrew

malicious

Top 10k

Specrew: specification-driven development workflow for AI-augmented teams

License: unknown

Published:

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SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Licenses

No license compliance issues

Secrets

No sensitive information found

Security

Vulnerabilities

No known vulnerabilities detected

Hardening

No application hardening issues

Threats

Tampering

1 components with malware history

Malware

1 malicious components found

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

malware

Reported By: ReversingLabs (Automated)

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Overview issues12 vulnerabilities0 malware1 behaviors56 dependencies0 contributors2 versions57

FAQ for Specrew

What is Specrew?

Specrew: specification-driven development workflow for AI-augmented teams. For more information about this package, visit its homepage.

Is Specrew malicious or is it safe to use?

The PS Gallery package Specrew was scanned for malware, software tampering, risky behaviors, exposed secrets and known vulnerabilities. Malware or tampering has been detected, making it unsafe to download and use. 1 other issue and risky behavior was found. The package contains risks, and the analysis results should be reviewed before it is downloaded and used. Visit the Issues and Behaviors sections of the analysis for more details. The package Specrew had 3 incidents in versions published within 2 years prior to the latest.

Is Specrew popular?

The PS Gallery package Specrew ranks among the top 10000 projects in this community. It has 462 recorded downloads. A package's popularity is not a good indicator of its safety, visit the SAFE Assessment section to see the full analysis of package deployment risk categories.

How do I secure Specrew once it is in my app?

Since we can't know when or where malicious attacks will happen, we recommend tracking how Specrew behaviors change over multiple software releases. By adopting differential analysis in your release process, you can detect unexpected changes to a Specrew version, which can prevent advanced software supply chain attacks. Read how our technology can help prevent future attacks similar to SolarWinds and 3CX.

Did you know...

... that you can use ReversingLabs’ Spectra Assure platform to perform regular risk assessments of packages you develop in-house?

We recommend continuous software safeness monitoring through CI/CD integrations and pre-release/deployment checks. In addition to basic package information found on this page our platform offers rich reports for developers and DevSecOps that help them remediate all reported issues.

Popularity

462

Total Downloads

Contributors

Declared Dependencies

Dependents

Top issues

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Problem

Third-party malware detection algorithms have determined that the software package contains one or more malicious files. The detection was made by a hash-based file reputation lookup. This malware detection method is considered accurate, and can typically identify the malware family by name.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

1 packages

found in

Top 1k

23 packages

found in

Top 10k

64 packages

in community

Next steps

If the software intent does not relate to malicious behavior, investigate the build and release environment for software supply chain compromise.

Avoid using this software package.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with higher privilege parts of the operating system, often requiring administrative access to accomplish a task. System security settings are the first line of defense against the most common attack vectors. For that reason, attackers often aim to tamper with system security settings. Disabling User Access Controls (UAC) and other security settings enables malicious code to execute without being blocked. While the presence of code that tampers with system security settings does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select applications should consider using functions that interact with system security settings. One example of acceptable use for such functions is allowing specialized applications to install as services that monitor the operating system events.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

6 packages

found in

Top 100

84 packages

found in

Top 1k

753 packages

found in

Top 10k

1.56k packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1562.001 - Disable or Modify Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components are typically distributed in standardized packaging formats. Software packages are built from instructions written within package manifests that act as blueprints for package assembly. A package manifest declares the most important software properties, such as the package name, its authors and license, external dependencies, and various actions that may occur during the package lifecycle. Package managers are specialized tools used by developers to manage software components. Package managers read these manifests to deploy software components along with their dependencies. The premise of the package management system is that software components are isolated from each other, and that they rely on the package manager to provide their dependencies. However, it was detected that a software component includes code capable of accessing or modifying directories that are maintained exclusively by package managers. This is unusual as it resembles tactics used by threat actors that tamper with installed software components and inject malicious code into trusted execution paths.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

7 packages

found in

Top 1k

43 packages

found in

Top 10k

96 packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1554 - Compromise Host Software Binary.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Software components sometimes need to interact with sensitive parts of the runtime environment, often requiring privileged access to accomplish a task. Build pipeline configuration includes high-value information such as CI/CD platform secrets and tokens, pipeline definition files and runner configuration, build-time environment variables containing signing keys or deploy credentials, and artifact registry and package publishing credentials. That information is used by continuous integration and delivery systems. Attackers often abuse access to build pipeline configuration to harvest secrets from build environments, which can later be exfiltrated to attacker-controlled infrastructure and used to tamper with software releases or publish malicious artifacts under trusted identities. While the presence of code that accesses build pipeline configuration does not necessarily imply malicious intent, all of its uses in a software package should be documented and approved. Only select software components should consider using functions that read build pipeline configuration. One example of acceptable use for such functions is release tooling that reads publishing credentials to push artifacts.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

0 packages

found in

Top 100

5 packages

found in

Top 1k

41 packages

found in

Top 10k

79 packages

in community

Next steps

Investigate reported detections as indicators of software tampering.

Consult Mitre ATT&CK documentation: T1072 - Software Deployment Tools.

Consider rewriting the flagged code without using the marked behaviors.

Problem

Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are structured addresses that point to locations and assets on the internet. URLs allow software developers to build complex applications that exchange data with servers that can be hosted in multiple geographical regions. URLs can commonly be found embedded in documentation, configuration files, source code and compiled binaries. One or more embedded URLs were discovered to link to raw files hosted on GitHub. Attackers often abuse popular web services to host malicious payloads. Since code-sharing service URLs are typically allowed by security solutions, using them for payload delivery increases the odds that the malicious code will reach the user. While the presence of code-sharing service locations does not imply malicious intent, all of their uses in a software package should be documented and approved. An increasing number of software supply chain attacks in the open source space leverage the GitHub service to deliver malicious payloads.

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

7 packages

found in

Top 100

394 packages

found in

Top 1k

1525 packages

found in

Top 10k

2.97k packages

in community

Next steps

Top 1k

2 packages

found in

Top 10k

21 packages

in community

Top vulnerabilities

No vulnerabilities found.

Specrew

SAFE Assessment

Compliance

Security

Threats

IMPORTANT: This package had 3 malicious incidents in versions published within 2 years prior to the latestLatest version with malware incident detected: 4 days agoVersion: 0.40.0-beta41

INCIDENTS FOR THIS VERSION:

FAQ for Specrew

What is Specrew?

Is Specrew malicious or is it safe to use?

Is Specrew popular?

How do I secure Specrew once it is in my app?

Did you know...

Popularity

Top issues

SQ30110Detected presence of malicious files through file reputation or third-party scanners.Causes risk: malicious components foundthreats

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

TH16114Detected presence of software components that can tamper with the system security settings.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

TH16129Detected presence of software components that can tamper with other installed software.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

TH16131Detected presence of software components that can access sensitive build pipeline configuration.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

TH17127Detected presence of files containing URLs that link to raw files on GitHub.hunting

Problem

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Next steps

Top behaviors

Prevents loading profile scripts during execution of some commands.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Prevents creating an interactive prompt for the user during execution.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Hides a window during execution of the code.stealth

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Reads from CI/CD configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

Reads from AI provider configuration files.steal

Prevalence in PowerShell Gallery community

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