---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text/v/35.2.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text/v/35.2.3.md"
package: "bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text"
report_status: "published"
title: "bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.2.3"
---

# bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Remote operator-controlled code executes with the importing process's privileges.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.2.3
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package automatically runs \_platform.js. It retrieves a remote binary, stores it in a temporary directory, and launches it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-06T01:15:00.804Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-06T01:15:31.531Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 137 ms
- **AI review time:** 30085 ms
- **Total time:** 30727 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package automatically runs \_platform.js. It retrieves a remote binary, stores it in a temporary directory, and launches it detached.

- **Trigger:** Requiring/importing the package at runtime.

- **Impact:** Remote operator-controlled code executes with the importing process's privileges.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-06T01:15:31.531Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote payload download or DNS-TXT retrieval followed by detached native execution

- **Attack narrative:** At package import, index.js silently loads \_platform.js. That module fetches a sufficiently large binary from obfuscated rotating worker hosts, falling back to base64 payload chunks obtained through DNS TXT records. It writes the result under a benign temporary filename, grants execute permission on Unix, and launches it detached through a shell or cmd.exe. The similarly structured telemetry module contains an additional configurable downloader/launcher but is not entrypoint-reachable.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete import-time remote code execution, not aligned with the advertised highlighted-text module. Lack of lifecycle scripts does not mitigate execution on normal use.

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

- **Network endpoints:** https://oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev/pkg/package, 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 \_platform.js at module load., \_platform.js downloads a payload from rotated worker hosts or DNS TXT., \_platform.js writes payload to temp storage, chmods it, then spawns it detached., Download-and-execute occurs on ordinary package import; no user setup command is required.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts or dependencies., Public index API itself is minimal; malicious behavior is hidden in its import side effect., lib/telemetry.js is not referenced by the public entrypoint.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3/lib/telemetry.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L498: 
L499: fork() {
L500: const child = new Scope();
```

### 2. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3/lib/telemetry.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const https = require("https");
L29: const dns = require("dns");
L30: const fs = require("fs");
...
L116: const _logger = new Logger(
L117: process.env.ANALYTICS_DEBUG ? LogLevel.DEBUG : LogLevel.NONE
L118: );
...
L224: "BUILD_NUMBER",
L225: "GITHUB_ACTIONS",
L226: "GITLAB_CI",
...
L275: app_start_time: new Date(Date.now() - process.uptime() * 1000).toISOString(),
L276: device_app_hash: hashString(process.cwd()),
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3/lib/telemetry.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const https = require("https");
L29: const dns = require("dns");
L30: const fs = require("fs");
...
L116: const _logger = new Logger(
L117: process.env.ANALYTICS_DEBUG ? LogLevel.DEBUG : LogLevel.NONE
L118: );
...
L224: "BUILD_NUMBER",
L225: "GITHUB_ACTIONS",
L226: "GITLAB_CI",
...
L275: app_start_time: new Date(Date.now() - process.uptime() * 1000).toISOString(),
L276: device_app_hash: hashString(process.cwd()),
```

### 7. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_platform.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3/_platform.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 -> _platform.js
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L43: const CACHE_TTL = 22371;
L44: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L45: 
...
L55: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L56: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L57: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L89: try {
L90: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L91: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 8. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text@35.2.3/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 = ded-aa-liza-ui-components@35.8.7
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:35.8.7
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:** bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.2.3
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:01:52.458Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-06T01:15:31.531Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-06T01:15:31.531Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.2.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Pluggable bnpl blocks atom desktop bnpl highlighted text interface
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,569 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/bnpl-blocks-atom-desktop-bnpl-highlighted-text/v/35.2.3>)
