## TL;DR

Per the Socket.dev case study: inspect what is actually obfuscated before treating the alert as malicious. Inspection shows the package ships minified test files - legitimate, widely used, stable since 2018.

## Steps

1. Per the Socket.dev case study: inspect what is actually obfuscated before treating the alert as malicious.

2. Inspection shows the package ships minified test files - legitimate, widely used, stable since 2018.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Per the Socket.dev case study: inspect what is actually obfuscated before treating the alert as malicious. Use this skill when you run into "Socket.dev obfuscatedFile alert on safer-buffer - minified tests, not malware".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.