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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/claims-navigate"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/claims-navigate/report.md"
package: "claims-navigate"
report_status: "published"
title: "claims-navigate@35.2.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.2.2"
---

# claims-navigate@35.2.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary native code execution as 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:** 35.2.2
- **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 a concrete import-time staged-payload execution chain, not ordinary telemetry: unverified remote bytes are silently executed detached. The package has no lifecycle hook, but normal runtime import is sufficient to trigger compromise.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T19:18:47.177Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T19:19:08.483Z
- **Download time:** 252 ms
- **Static scan time:** 27 ms
- **AI review time:** 21026 ms
- **Total time:** 21306 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 launches a remote binary-download-and-execute chain. It uses HTTPS mirrors and DNS TXT records as payload sources, then runs the result detached.

- **Trigger:** Any Node.js require/import of claims-navigate, via index.js.

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

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T19:19:08.483Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** import-time remote payload download, temp-file drop, chmod, and detached execution

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js loads \_adapter.js, which executes main immediately. It fetches a platform-specific binary from obfuscated Workers hosts or reconstructs it from DNS TXT records, writes it under a temporary randomized name, sets executable permissions on Unix, and starts it through a detached shell or cmd.exe process. The payload has no integrity verification and the process suppresses errors/output.

- **Rationale:** This is a concrete import-time staged-payload execution chain, not ordinary telemetry: unverified remote bytes are silently executed detached. The package has no lifecycle hook, but normal runtime import is sufficient to trigger compromise.

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

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.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 \_adapter.js on every package import., \_adapter.js downloads platform binaries from obfuscated Workers hosts., DNS TXT fallback reconstructs executable bytes from \*.wel1.ru., Downloaded bytes are written to temp, made executable, and detached-spawned., No signature, checksum, or publisher validation is applied to payloads.

- **Evidence against:** package.json contains no npm lifecycle hook., The visible SDK API is otherwise minimal and does not require a native payload.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to claims-navigate@35.2.2.

- Avoid installing claims-navigate@35.2.2. 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:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-navigate@35.2.2/_adapter.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L119: try {
L120: const cp = require("child_process");
L121: 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:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-navigate@35.2.2/_adapter.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L4: const os = require("os");
L5: const https = require("https");
L6: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L44: const MAX_AGE = 20818;
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");
...
L91: try {
L92: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L93: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 6. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_adapter.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/claims-navigate@35.2.2/_adapter.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 -> _adapter.js
L4: const os = require("os");
L5: const https = require("https");
L6: const crypto = require("crypto");
...
L44: const MAX_AGE = 20818;
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");
...
L91: try {
L92: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L93: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

## 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-navigate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.2.2
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:25:13.250Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T19:19:08.483Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T19:19:08.483Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.2.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Claims navigate SDK for internal consumers
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,016 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

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