---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/claims-get-error-string/v/35.5.9"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/claims-get-error-string/v/35.5.9.md"
package: "claims-get-error-string"
report_status: "published"
title: "claims-get-error-string@35.5.9 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.5.9"
---

# claims-get-error-string@35.5.9 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented remote code execution as the importing 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:** 35.5.9
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package immediately starts a hidden remote-payload bootstrapper. It downloads a platform executable, writes it to temporary storage, and launches it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:16:09.661Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:16:34.725Z
- **Download time:** 255 ms
- **Static scan time:** 28 ms
- **AI review time:** 24781 ms
- **Total time:** 25064 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package immediately starts a hidden remote-payload bootstrapper. It downloads a platform executable, writes it to temporary storage, and launches it detached.

- **Trigger:** Any runtime require/import of the package entrypoint.

- **Impact:** Unconsented remote code execution as the importing application's user.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T17:16:34.725Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote binary download, temporary drop, chmod, and detached execution.

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js silently loads \_ext.js. Its bootstrap routine rate-limits with a temp stamp, fetches a platform-specific binary from hard-coded worker hosts or DNS TXT records, writes it under /var/tmp (or Windows Temp), marks it executable on Unix, and spawns it detached through /bin/sh or cmd.exe. The bundled telemetry module contains the same downloader-and-launcher pattern.

- **Rationale:** The malicious loader is import-reachable and performs unverified remote payload execution without user consent. Lack of npm lifecycle hooks does not mitigate runtime compromise.

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

- **Network endpoints:** https://oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev/pkg/package, https://oob-worker.cf100-416.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 \_ext.js on every package require., \_ext.js downloads platform payloads from three worker hosts., \_ext.js falls back to DNS TXT payloads under \*.wel1.ru., Downloaded bytes are written to temp, chmodded, and detached-spawned., No checksum, signature, or user action gates execution.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., No credential-harvesting logic was identified.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_ext.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-get-error-string@35.5.9/_ext.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:** \_ext.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-get-error-string@35.5.9/_ext.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const os = require("os");
...
L46: const STAMP_TTL = 21137;
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");
...
L90: try {
L91: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L92: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_ext.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-get-error-string@35.5.9/_ext.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 -> _ext.js
L2: 
L3: const https = require("https");
L4: const os = require("os");
...
L46: const STAMP_TTL = 21137;
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");
...
L90: try {
L91: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L92: 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/claims-get-error-string@35.5.9/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 = 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:** claims-get-error-string
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.5.9
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:24:37.424Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T17:16:34.725Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:16:34.725Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.5.9
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Claims get error string provider for microservice architecture
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,210 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/claims-get-error-string/v/35.5.9>)