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Smart ruler

ID: npgpdlfoflcfcohplcdclmocfemgpdga

Could be malicious

Supported Languages

🇧🇩Bengali

🇧🇷Brazilian Portuguese

🇬🇧British English

🇧🇬Bulgarian

🇪🇸Catalan

🇨🇳Chinese (Simplified)

🇹🇼Chinese (Traditional)

🇭🇷Croatian

🇨🇿Czech

🇩🇰Danish

🇳🇱Dutch

🇺🇸English

🇪🇪Estonian

🇵🇭Filipino

🇫🇮Finnish

🇫🇷French

🇩🇪German

🇬🇷Greek

🇮🇳Gujarati

🇮🇳Hindi

🇭🇺Hungarian

🇮🇩Indonesian

🇮🇹Italian

🇯🇵Japanese

🇰🇷Korean

🇲🇽Latin American Spanish

🇱🇻Latvian

🇱🇹Lithuanian

🇲🇾Malay

🇮🇳Malayalam

🇮🇳Marathi

🇳🇴Norwegian

🇵🇱Polish

🇵🇹Portuguese

🇷🇴Romanian

🇷🇺Russian

🇷🇸Serbian

🇸🇰Slovak

🇸🇮Slovenian

🇪🇸Spanish

🇸🇪Swedish

🇮🇳Tamil

🇮🇳Telugu

🇹🇭Thai

🇹🇷Turkish

🇺🇦Ukrainian

🇺🇸US English

🇻🇳Vietnamese

Extension Info & Metadata

Status

Removed

Version

0.6.1

Size

0.64 MB

Rating

5.0/5

Reviews

Users

300,000

Type

Extension

Updated

Aug 16, 2021

Publisher Contextual Analysis

Author: Candice KumaloView Profile
MX records exist: Yes
Domain exists: Yes
Is disposable: No
Is role-based: No
Mailbox exists: Yes

Total Extensions

Active

Obsolete

Listed

Unlisted

Total Users

300,000

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Smart ruler - measure objects on webpages.

Smart Ruler measures elements on the screen in pixels. Smart Ruler helps digital specialists - designers, web developers, product managers. Features: ✰ Measure objects on the page. See screenshot ✰ Select HTML elements manually or by selectors ✰ Keyboard shortcut Alt-P (use chrome://extensions/shortcuts to change the shortcut)

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Medium2

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Versions scanned

Showing 2 of 2 scanned versions with more than one unique finding. Counts are unique findings that include each version.

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.6.1 Code review	3
0.6.0 Code review	3

Extension Version	Code Review Findings
0.6.1	3
0.6.0	3

Files with findings

2 distinct paths — top paths by unique finding count:

background.js5
js/content.js1

S.No.	Category	Severity	File	Summary	Found in Version
1	Code Injection	critical	background.js (line 451)	This parser walks attacker-controlled dotted paths off `top`, extracts functions/objects from the global scope, then calls `u.apply(...)` using arguments derived from JSON. Combined with the remote locale fetch path, …	0.6.1
2	Remote Code Loading	high	background.js (line 433)	This code fetches locale JSON from an alternate remote host (`usemarketngs.com`) and immediately parses it in the background context. Pulling executable or semi-executable configuration from an external domain is susp…	0.6.1
3	Remote Code Loading	medium	background.js (line 1)	The background page dynamically creates a <script> element pointing to https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js and injects it into the DOM at runtime, constituting remote code loading. The call ga("set","checkPr…	0.6.0
4	Tracking	medium	background.js (line 29)	The background page injects a remote script from Google Analytics at runtime instead of keeping all executable code packaged in the extension. Remote script loading is a classic extension risk because the extension ex…	0.6.1
5	Tracking	low	background.js (line 1)	Setting checkProtocolTask to null bypasses Google Analytics' built-in guard that prevents data from being sent from non-HTTP(S) contexts. This is a deliberate evasion technique to allow the analytics beacon to fire si…	0.6.0
6	Tracking	low	js/content.js (line 1)	The content script fires 16 distinct trackEvent messages to the background page covering detailed UI interactions (element mode toggling, toolbar visibility, ruler dimension changes, border-search, dock position, colo…	0.6.0

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www.google-analytics.com	/analytics.js	https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js
usemarketngs.com	-	https://usemarketngs.com
www.w3.org	/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd	http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd
www.w3.org	/2000/svg	http://www.w3.org/2000/svg
clients2.google.com	/service/update2/crx	https://clients2.google.com/service/update2/crx
www.google-analytics.com;	-	https://www.google-analytics.com;

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5.0 out of 5 · 10 most recent reviews

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.amazing this is the best extension for all people. we can make the world better with this extension

Youssef Jamous·22 Sept 2021

A very versatile extension. Recommend!

Aleks Pride·2 Sept 2021

definitely nice to have as a tool and works great

Danielle Nozomi·31 Aug 2021

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Security Alert: Confirmed Malware

Smart ruler

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