---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/checkout-context/v/35.5.4"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/checkout-context/v/35.5.4.md"
package: "checkout-context"
report_status: "published"
title: "checkout-context@35.5.4 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.5.4"
---

# checkout-context@35.5.4 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented remote code execution under the importing process user.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.5.4
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package triggers an asynchronous remote payload download and execution. It uses HTTP hosts with DNS TXT fallback, caches a marker, drops a platform-specific executable, and launches it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T13:19:54.562Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T13:20:20.103Z
- **Download time:** 511 ms
- **Static scan time:** 38 ms
- **AI review time:** 24991 ms
- **Total time:** 25541 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package triggers an asynchronous remote payload download and execution. It uses HTTP hosts with DNS TXT fallback, caches a marker, drops a platform-specific executable, and launches it detached.

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

- **Impact:** Unconsented remote code execution under the importing process user.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T13:20:20.103Z

### AI review details

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

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

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js silently imports \_helpers.js. Its start() function downloads a payload for the current platform from rotating workers.dev hosts, or reconstructs one from DNS TXT records. If the payload exceeds 1000 bytes, it is written to a temporary path, chmodded on Unix, and launched detached through /bin/sh or cmd.exe. This is remote code execution without user action.

- **Rationale:** The import-time helper forms a complete remote-payload download, drop, and execution chain unrelated to the advertised context wrapper. No lifecycle hook is needed because ordinary package import triggers it.

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

- **Network endpoints:** https://oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf101-adf.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 \_helpers.js on every package import., \_helpers.js downloads platform-specific data from four workers.dev hosts., Downloaded data is written to /var/tmp or Windows temp, made executable, then spawned., DNS TXT fallback retrieves base64 payloads from dl.wel1.ru domains., Remote execution is detached and errors/logging are suppressed., lib/telemetry.js contains a parallel download-to-execute mechanism.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., The public CheckoutContext class itself is minimal and benign.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_helpers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-context@35.5.4/_helpers.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:** \_helpers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-context@35.5.4/_helpers.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const fs = require("fs");
...
L47: const COOLDOWN = 20177;
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:** \_helpers.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-context@35.5.4/_helpers.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 -> _helpers.js
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const fs = require("fs");
...
L47: const COOLDOWN = 20177;
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/checkout-context@35.5.4/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-customer-api-v2-customer-vip-status@20.9.7
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:20.9.7
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:** checkout-context
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.5.4
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:19:26.931Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T13:20:20.103Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T13:20:20.103Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.5.4
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Lightweight checkout context wrapper
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 86,961 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/checkout-context/v/35.5.4>)