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Malicious MAL-2026-13074

boxy-page-story

npm package · versions 35.8.5

Reported Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (6cb3184221c24b500fca09d9e96c886b1ffe703d60b121150180b2387a87c48d)
On require, index.js loads./_runtime, which reconstructs C2 hostnames from string-array concatenation to hide four oob-worker.cf1{00,01,02,03}-*.workers.dev endpoints and a wel1.ru DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback (chunk-count TXT at c.<domain>, base64 chunks at <n>.<domain>, reassembled and base64-decoded). A platform-specific binary is downloaded, written to /tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_<hex> on Unix, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows), chmod 0755'd, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c "<path> &" or cmd.exe /c start /b. No hash or signature verification; hosts are attacker-controlled non-publisher infrastructure. Fetch is gated by absence of a recent cache file and DO_NOT_TRACK-style env vars. index.js wraps the require in try/catch to swallow errors silently.