---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-mops"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/boxy-mops/report.md"
package: "boxy-mops"
report_status: "published"
title: "boxy-mops@35.2.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.2.9"
---

# boxy-mops@35.2.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary remote 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:** 35.2.9
- **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 code execution unrelated to the advertised component API. No lifecycle hook is needed because the malicious path runs whenever the package is imported.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:47:21.510Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:47:43.159Z
- **Download time:** 504 ms
- **Static scan time:** 51 ms
- **AI review time:** 21093 ms
- **Total time:** 21649 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 silently starts a remote payload downloader. It writes and executes the retrieved binary detached from the caller.

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

- **Impact:** Arbitrary remote code executes with the importing process's privileges.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T17:47:43.159Z

### AI review details

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

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

- **Attack narrative:** Loading index.js invokes \_compat.js. Its start routine fetches a platform-specific binary from rotating remote hosts, or reconstructs one via DNS TXT records, writes it to a temporary path, grants execute permission on non-Windows systems, and launches it detached via /bin/sh or cmd.exe.

- **Rationale:** This is concrete import-time remote code execution unrelated to the advertised component API. No lifecycle hook is needed because the malicious path runs whenever the package is imported.

- **Files touched:** index.js, \_compat.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.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.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 \_compat.js on every package import., \_compat.js downloads platform payloads from obfuscated workers.dev hosts., DNS TXT fallback retrieves base64 payloads from dl.wel1.ru hosts., Downloaded payload is written to /var/tmp or Windows Temp, made executable, then detached-spawned., Execution is hidden by empty logging and broad error suppression.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., lib/telemetry.js is not imported by the public entrypoint.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to boxy-mops@35.2.9.

- Avoid installing boxy-mops@35.2.9. 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-mops@35.2.9/_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-mops@35.2.9/_compat.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L5: const crypto = require("crypto");
L6: const https = require("https");
L7: const fs = require("fs");
...
L44: const TTL = 20144;
L45: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L46: 
...
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");
...
L89: try {
L90: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L91: 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-mops@35.2.9/_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
L5: const crypto = require("crypto");
L6: const https = require("https");
L7: const fs = require("fs");
...
L44: const TTL = 20144;
L45: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L46: 
...
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");
...
L89: try {
L90: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L91: 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-mops@35.2.9/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 = lifestyle-test-utils@20.7.2
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGlmZXN0eWxlLXRlc3QtdXRpbHM:20.7.2
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-mops
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.2.9
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:13:41.152Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T17:47:43.159Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:47:43.159Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.2.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Reusable boxy mops components
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 86,960 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

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