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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-loader/v/35.4.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-loader/v/35.4.2.md"
package: "boxy-loader"
report_status: "published"
title: "boxy-loader@35.4.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.4.2"
---

# boxy-loader@35.4.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented remote code execution with an attacker-controlled native payload.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.4.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package triggers a remote payload loader. It downloads or DNS-reconstructs a binary, drops it in a temp directory, and runs it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T19:49:26.566Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T19:49:45.594Z
- **Download time:** 507 ms
- **Static scan time:** 56 ms
- **AI review time:** 18464 ms
- **Total time:** 19028 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package triggers a remote payload loader. It downloads or DNS-reconstructs a binary, drops it in a temp directory, and runs it detached.

- **Trigger:** Any Node process that requires/imports index.js.

- **Impact:** Unconsented remote code execution with an attacker-controlled native payload.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T19:49:45.594Z

### AI review details

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

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

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js silently loads \_adapter.js. Its setup routine selects a platform payload path, tries rotating workers.dev hosts, then reconstructs a fallback payload from DNS TXT records. Once a payload exceeds 1000 bytes, it writes it to a temporary file, makes it executable on Unix, and starts it detached through /bin/sh or cmd.exe. The behavior is not exposed as a user-invoked feature and is concealed behind telemetry-themed naming and a cooldown marker.

- **Rationale:** The package performs concrete import-time staged payload delivery and detached execution, which is remote code execution rather than legitimate loader functionality.

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

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.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 \_adapter.js at module load., \_adapter.js downloads platform binaries from rotating workers.dev hosts., \_adapter.js falls back to DNS TXT payload retrieval from wel1.ru domains., Downloaded bytes are written to a temporary executable and launched detached via shell/cmd., A hidden temp lock file throttles repeated execution.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., The public BoxyLoader API itself is minimal, but import-time adapter execution is unrelated to it.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-loader@35.4.2/_adapter.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L121: try {
L122: const cp = require("child_process");
L123: 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:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-loader@35.4.2/_adapter.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const crypto = require("crypto");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const os = require("os");
...
L46: const COOLDOWN = 20405;
L47: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L48: 
...
L59: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L60: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L61: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L93: try {
L94: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L95: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-loader@35.4.2/_adapter.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 -> _adapter.js
L3: const crypto = require("crypto");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const os = require("os");
...
L46: const COOLDOWN = 20405;
L47: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L48: 
...
L59: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L60: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L61: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L93: try {
L94: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L95: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

## 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-loader
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.4.2
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:12:29.000Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T19:49:45.594Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T19:49:45.594Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.4.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Boxy loader abstraction layer
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,095 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-loader/v/35.4.2>)