---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-maker-readiness"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-maker-readiness/report.md"
package: "boxy-maker-readiness"
report_status: "published"
title: "boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.3.4"
---

# boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary code execution as the consuming application's user.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.3.4
- **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.

The benign wrapper is a cover for reachable import-time remote payload execution. No install hook is needed because normal use of the declared main entrypoint activates the chain.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:52:20.082Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:52:44.811Z
- **Download time:** 521 ms
- **Static scan time:** 54 ms
- **AI review time:** 24153 ms
- **Total time:** 24729 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 main entrypoint silently starts a remote payload bootstrap. It retrieves a binary over HTTPS or DNS TXT, drops it to a temporary directory, and executes it detached.

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

- **Impact:** Arbitrary code execution as the consuming application's user.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T17:52:44.811Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote binary download, temporary-file drop, and detached shell execution

- **Attack narrative:** The exported package entrypoint catches and suppresses errors while immediately loading \_shim.js. That module selects a platform payload, downloads it from rotating Workers hosts or reconstructs it through DNS TXT records, writes it to a temporary path, marks non-Windows files executable, and launches it detached through /bin/sh or cmd.exe. This is unconsented arbitrary remote-code execution on ordinary package import.

- **Rationale:** The benign wrapper is a cover for reachable import-time remote payload execution. No install hook is needed because normal use of the declared main entrypoint activates the chain.

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

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.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 imports \_shim.js on every package require., \_shim.js downloads platform-specific bytes from disguised Workers hosts., \_shim.js falls back to DNS TXT payload retrieval., \_shim.js writes payloads under /var/tmp or Windows Temp, chmods them, then launches detached., Downloaded payload execution is hidden behind empty-error handlers and a benign wrapper API., lib/telemetry.js contains a parallel configurable download-to-execute implementation.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., Public BoxyMakerReadiness API itself is a minimal wrapper.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4.

- Avoid installing boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4. 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:** \_shim.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4/_shim.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:** \_shim.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4/_shim.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const path = require("path");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const os = require("os");
...
L47: const TTL = 21409;
L48: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L49: 
...
L60: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L61: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L62: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L94: try {
L95: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L96: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_shim.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4/_shim.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 -> _shim.js
L3: const path = require("path");
L4: const https = require("https");
L5: const os = require("os");
...
L47: const TTL = 21409;
L48: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L49: 
...
L60: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L61: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L62: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L94: try {
L95: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L96: 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/boxy-maker-readiness@35.3.4/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 = twork-data-services-aggregator-company-sme-main-timeline-loader-with-customers@20.3.8
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:20.3.8
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:** boxy-maker-readiness
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.3.4
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:12:56.979Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T17:52:44.811Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:52:44.811Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.3.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Reusable boxy maker readiness components
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,217 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

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