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PHP and Composer Support Is Now in Beta
Socket’s PHP and Composer support is now in Beta for all customers, with PHP reachability analysis generally available.
By Trevor Norris, Benjamin Barslev - Aug 21, 2026
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This package version has been unpublished, mostly likely due to security reasons
This package has been flagged as malicious. It is considered unsafe regardless of version.
This code is a classic malicious loader/dropper: it fetches a hardcoded remote JavaScript payload using curl, executes it via require() from a disk file, and then deletes the payload to hinder investigation. The presence of encoding/obfuscation of the URL and shell fragments, combined with network-to-execution flow, makes this highly indicative of supply-chain malware.
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The npm package lib-mtop receives a total of 7 weekly downloads. As such, lib-mtop popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that lib-mtop demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 23 Apr 2026
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