---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigops-nitro-client/v/35.6.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigops-nitro-client/v/35.6.1.md"
package: "bigops-nitro-client"
report_status: "published"
title: "bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.6.1"
---

# bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Untrusted remote code executes with the privileges of the importing Node process.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.6.1
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package automatically runs a hidden bootstrapper. It retrieves an unsigned platform payload, writes it to temporary storage, and launches it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T16:53:24.101Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T16:53:56.144Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 28 ms
- **AI review time:** 31759 ms
- **Total time:** 32043 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package automatically runs a hidden bootstrapper. It retrieves an unsigned platform payload, writes it to temporary storage, and launches it detached.

- **Trigger:** Any runtime require/import of index.js.

- **Impact:** Untrusted remote code executes with the privileges of the importing Node process.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js, \_vendor.js, lib/telemetry.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T16:53:56.144Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** remote binary download, drop, chmod, and detached execution

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js silently imports \_vendor.js. Its bootstrap routine downloads an unsigned binary from rotating workers.dev hosts, or reconstructs one from DNS TXT records, then writes it to a temporary hidden/random path, makes it executable on Unix, and launches it detached through /bin/sh or cmd.exe. The marker file and suppressed errors make execution quiet and rate-limited.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete import-time remote payload execution unrelated to the advertised client abstraction. Opt-out environment checks and lack of an npm lifecycle hook do not mitigate the runtime compromise.

- **Files touched:** index.js, \_vendor.js, /tmp/.analytics\_state, /var/tmp/.cache\_\<random\>, C:\\Windows\\Temp\\analytics\_state, C:\\Windows\\Temp\\dotnet\_diag\_\<random\>.exe

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, net.dl.wel1.ru

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** index.js imports \_vendor automatically on package import., \_vendor.js downloads platform binaries from worker hosts or DNS TXT., \_vendor.js writes a hidden temp binary, chmods it, and starts it detached via shell/cmd., The payload has no signature or integrity verification., A temp marker throttles repeated execution and errors are suppressed.

- **Evidence against:** package.json contains no lifecycle scripts., No concrete credential-harvesting code was found in the import path.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1/_vendor.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L118: try {
L119: const cp = require("child_process");
L120: if (isWin) {
```

### 2. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 4. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 5. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1/_vendor.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const os = require("os");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L45: const MAX_AGE = 20913;
L46: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L47: 
...
L56: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L57: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L58: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L90: try {
L91: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L92: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_vendor.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1/_vendor.js>)

A package entrypoint or install-time lifecycle script reaches a source file with blocking dangerous behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
Trigger-reachable chain: manifest.main -> index.js -> _vendor.js
L3: const os = require("os");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L45: const MAX_AGE = 20913;
L46: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L47: 
...
L56: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L57: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L58: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L90: try {
L91: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L92: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 7. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bigops-nitro-client@35.6.1/lib/telemetry.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = bigops-products-accounts-and-cards@35.7.5
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:35.7.5
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

## 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:** bigops-nitro-client
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.6.1
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T14:01:37.493Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T16:53:56.144Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T16:53:56.144Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.6.1
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Pluggable bigops nitro client interface
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,198 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bigops-nitro-client/v/35.6.1>)