Is AMALYZE - for Amazon Sellers and Vendors safe?
AMALYZE sends hashed Chrome profile email, profile ID, and an extension UUID to falcon.amalyze.com during heartbeats.
On background startup, AMALYZE starts a Falcon heartbeat and repeats it every 180 minutes. Each status request to falcon.amalyze.com includes headers containing the hashed Chrome profile email, Chrome profile ID, a one-time token derived from that ID, and a persisted extension UUID.
Who publishes itAMALYZE Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
AMALYZE Inc. - no other listings under this identity, 1 shared hostname
What this publisher told the store about itself, and the other listings that told it the same thing.
Shared hosts - 1 hostname
Hostnames hardcoded in this extension that few other listings call. That can mean one operator behind both, and it can equally mean a small shared vendor, so it is context rather than a conclusion. Hosts that many listings call are left out: they are services, not connections.
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Findings
AMALYZE sends your Google account ID and a device ID to Amalyze every 3 hours
AMALYZE sends the email and ID of your signed-in Google account to Amalyze's server on install, and again every 3 hours, along with a rotating one-time code and a permanent device ID, with no consent prompt.
- Severity
- Medium unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You install the AMALYZE extension, or Chrome restarts its background service worker.
No page visit, click, or Amazon page load is needed.
The extension reads your signed-in Google account's email and ID and sends both to Amalyze's server, with a rotating one-time code and a permanent device ID.
This happens immediately on startup and repeats every 3 hours without a consent prompt.
- Your Google account email1df66fbb427ff7e64ac46af29cc74b71 (illustrative, md5 of an example address)
Sent as an MD5 hash rather than plaintext, but the hash is not salted, so it can be matched back to your email by hashing common addresses.
- Your Google account ID107834521098765432109 (illustrative)
Your numeric Google account identifier, sent unhashed and in plaintext.
- One-time passcode482913 (illustrative, rotates every 30s)
A 6-digit code derived from your account ID, refreshed every 30 seconds. Proves the request came from a client that knows your account ID.
- Extension install IDa1b2c3d4-5678-90ab-cdef-1234567890ab (illustrative)
A UUID generated once and stored permanently on your device, letting Amalyze recognize this browser across every future heartbeat.
Every 3 hours
Fires immediately when the extension starts, then repeats every 3 hours for as long as the extension stays enabled.
- falcon.amalyze.com
Receives your hashed email, account ID, one-time code, and device UUID on every heartbeat. Owned by Amalyze, the extension's own publisher.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 2.9.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on amazon.de
https://*.amazon.de/*
Read and change your data on amazon.co.uk
https://*.amazon.co.uk/*
Read and change your data on amazon.it
https://*.amazon.it/*
Read and change your data on amazon.fr
https://*.amazon.fr/*
Read and change your data on amazon.es
https://*.amazon.es/*
Read and change your data on amazon.nl
https://*.amazon.nl/*
Read and change your data on amazon.com.tr
https://*.amazon.com.tr/*
Read and change your data on amazon.com
https://*.amazon.com/*
Read and change your data on amazon.ca
https://*.amazon.ca/*
Read and change your data on amazon.com.mx
https://*.amazon.com.mx/*
Read and change your data on amazon.com.br
https://*.amazon.com.br/*
Read and change your data on amazon.co.jp
https://*.amazon.co.jp/*
Read and change your data on amazon.com.au
https://*.amazon.com.au/*
Read and change your data on amazon.in
https://*.amazon.in/*
Read and change your data on amazon.cn
https://*.amazon.cn/*
Read and change your data on amalyze.com
https://*.amalyze.com/*
Store data in your browser
storage
See every page you navigate to, as you navigate to it
webNavigation
Sign you in with your Google account
identity
See the email address of your Google account
identity.email
Run its own code inside the pages you visit
scripting
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Store an unlimited amount of data in your browser
unlimitedStorage
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed AMALYZE contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- falcon.amalyze.com
AMALYZE sends data to falcon.amalyze.com. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.