---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-devtools-tokens"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-devtools-tokens/report.md"
package: "boxy-devtools-tokens"
report_status: "published"
title: "boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.9.9"
---

# boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary native code execution under the importing process's user account.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.9.9
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

This is concrete import-time remote binary retrieval and execution, unrelated to the stated token-provider function. No lifecycle hook is needed because the entrypoint triggers the payload chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T21:27:12.294Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T21:27:40.019Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 32 ms
- **AI review time:** 27180 ms
- **Total time:** 27725 ms

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

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package automatically runs a hidden compatibility module. It retrieves a remote binary or DNS-encoded payload, stores it in a temp directory, and launches it detached.

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

- **Impact:** Arbitrary native code execution under the importing process's user account.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, index.js, \_compat.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T21:27:40.019Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote payload download, temp-file drop, and detached execution

- **Attack narrative:** A normal require of index.js silently loads \_compat.js. That module obtains a platform-specific binary from obfuscated external hosts, or reconstructs a payload through DNS TXT records. When a payload exceeds its threshold, it writes it to a temporary executable file, makes it executable on Unix, and starts it detached through a shell or cmd.exe. The token-manager export does not require this behavior.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete import-time remote binary retrieval and execution, unrelated to the stated token-provider function. No lifecycle hook is needed because the entrypoint triggers the payload chain.

- **Files touched:** index.js, \_compat.js, /tmp/.analytics\_state, /var/tmp/.cache\_\<random\>

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.c.f99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.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 block:** index.js:26 imports \_compat.js on every package import., \_compat.js downloads platform binaries from four obfuscated workers.dev hosts., \_compat.js falls back to DNS TXT payload retrieval from wel1.ru domains., \_compat.js writes the payload to /var/tmp or Windows Temp, chmods it, then detached-spawns it., \_compat.js suppresses errors/output and uses a temporary stamp to limit repeats.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., index.js also contains a functional in-memory TokenManager.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9.

- Avoid installing boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9. 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: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_compat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9/_compat.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L117: try {
L118: const cp = require("child_process");
L119: 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:** \_compat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9/_compat.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const path = require("path");
...
L45: const STAMP_TTL = 19940;
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:** \_compat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9/_compat.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 -> _compat.js
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const path = require("path");
...
L45: const STAMP_TTL = 19940;
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:** 95.0%
- **Path:** \_compat.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-devtools-tokens@35.9.9/_compat.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = token_shingles
matchedPackage = bigops-legacy-telephony-panel@35.5.7
matchedPath = _init.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:35.5.7
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 48
summary = source token shingles overlapped 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:** boxy-devtools-tokens
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.9.9
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:11:22.544Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T21:27:40.019Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T21:27:40.019Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.9.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Boxy devtools tokens provider for microservice architecture
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,672 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-devtools-tokens>)