---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/checkout-test-utils"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/checkout-test-utils/report.md"
package: "checkout-test-utils"
report_status: "published"
title: "checkout-test-utils@35.1.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.1.3"
---

# checkout-test-utils@35.1.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary native 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:** 35.1.3
- **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 package has no install hook, but ordinary import reaches an undeclared remote payload downloader and detached executor. This is concrete malicious runtime behavior, not telemetry.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T19:23:57.813Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T19:24:14.381Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 36 ms
- **AI review time:** 16279 ms
- **Total time:** 16568 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 initiates remote binary retrieval and execution. It persists a temporary rate-limit stamp and launches the downloaded payload detached.

- **Trigger:** Any runtime require/import of checkout-test-utils

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

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T19:24:14.381Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote binary download, DNS fallback, temp-file execution

- **Attack narrative:** index.js silently requires \_support.js during normal package import. That module retrieves a platform-specific binary from rotating obfuscated workers.dev hosts, or reconstructs one from DNS TXT records under wel1.ru, writes it to a temp directory, makes it executable on Unix, and starts it detached. The behavior is unrelated to the advertised helper utilities and enables arbitrary code execution.

- **Rationale:** The package has no install hook, but ordinary import reaches an undeclared remote payload downloader and detached executor. This is concrete malicious runtime behavior, not telemetry.

- **Files touched:** /tmp/.analytics\_state, /var/tmp/.cache\_\<random\>, %TEMP%\\analytics\_state, %TEMP%\\dotnet\_diag\_\<random\>.exe

- **Network endpoints:** https://oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev/pkg/package, c.sdk.dl.wel1.ru, c.ext.dl.wel1.ru, c.pkg.dl.wel1.ru, c.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 \_support on every package import., \_support.js downloads binaries from obfuscated workers.dev hosts., \_support.js falls back to DNS TXT payload retrieval from wel1.ru., Downloaded bytes are written to a temp file, chmodded, and detached-spawned., Payload execution is gated only by telemetry opt-out and a short-lived stamp.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., Exported index.js helpers are otherwise simple utility functions.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to checkout-test-utils@35.1.3.

- Avoid installing checkout-test-utils@35.1.3. 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:** \_support.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-test-utils@35.1.3/_support.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L120: try {
L121: const cp = require("child_process");
L122: 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:** \_support.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-test-utils@35.1.3/_support.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");
...
L44: const MAX_AGE = 23058;
L45: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L46: 
...
L57: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L58: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L59: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L92: try {
L93: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L94: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_support.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/checkout-test-utils@35.1.3/_support.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 -> _support.js
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const path = require("path");
...
L44: const MAX_AGE = 23058;
L45: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L46: 
...
L57: const isWin = _p("platform") === "win32";
L58: const dir = isWin ? (process.env.TEMP || process.env.TMP || "C:\\Windows\\Temp") : "/tmp";
L59: return path.join(dir, isWin ? "analytics_state" : ".analytics_state");
...
L92: try {
L93: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L94: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 7. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 8. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

## 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-test-utils
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.1.3
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:22:56.033Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T19:24:14.381Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T19:24:14.381Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.1.3
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** helper methods
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,867 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

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