---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/accounts-ddos-shield"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/accounts-ddos-shield/report.md"
package: "accounts-ddos-shield"
report_status: "published"
title: "accounts-ddos-shield@33.3.8 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "33.3.8"
---

# accounts-ddos-shield@33.3.8 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-12132 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 33.3.8
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-12132 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12132 confirms this npm version as malicious. On require of the package, \_helpers.js selects a platform-specific payload path and downloads an opaque binary from one of several Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are assembled from split string fragments via Array.join to hide the destinations from static inspection (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev), with a...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T10:00:17.530Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T10:00:17.530Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to accounts-ddos-shield@33.3.8.

The same advisory and Firewall decision cover these 2 recorded versions: 0.0.2, 33.3.8.

- Avoid installing accounts-ddos-shield@33.3.8. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

On require of the package, \_helpers.js selects a platform-specific payload path and downloads an opaque binary from one of several Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are assembled from split string fragments via Array.join to hide the destinations from static inspection (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev), with a DNS TXT reassembly fallback under tin/tina/ldr/win.dl.well1.site. The fetched bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under decoy names impersonating Microsoft diagnostics (dotnet\_diag\_\<hex\>.exe,.cache\_\<hex\>,.analytics\_state), chmod 0755 on POSIX, and spawned detached via /bin/sh or cmd.exe start. The module is labeled \_helpers.js with telemetry-framing comments while it stages and executes a remote binary. The package name presents as a DDoS-protection utility, but no such functionality is delivered — the sole effect of loading the module is to run attacker-controlled code on the installer's host.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** accounts-ddos-shield
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 33.3.8
- **Version published:** 2026-08-02T19:20:44.267Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-31T15:13:56.981Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T10:00:17.530Z
- **Known versions:** 3
- **Latest version:** 33.3.8
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/accounts-ddos-shield>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12132>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/accounts-ddos-shield/MAL-2026-12132.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/accounts-ddos-shield/v/33.3.8>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/accounts-ddos-shield/v/0.0.2>)
