---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cobrowsing-k8s-module/v/35.6.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cobrowsing-k8s-module/v/35.6.2.md"
package: "cobrowsing-k8s-module"
report_status: "published"
title: "cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.6.2"
---

# cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unconsented remote code execution in the importing user's environment.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.6.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package automatically runs a hidden bridge. It downloads an opaque native payload, writes it to a temporary directory, and launches it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T17:07:35.087Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T17:08:01.176Z
- **Download time:** 254 ms
- **Static scan time:** 135 ms
- **AI review time:** 25699 ms
- **Total time:** 26089 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package automatically runs a hidden bridge. It downloads an opaque native payload, writes it to a temporary directory, and launches it detached.

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

- **Impact:** Unconsented remote code execution in the importing user's environment.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T17:08:01.176Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote binary download, disk drop, chmod, and detached shell execution

- **Attack narrative:** Requiring index.js silently loads \_bridge.js. The bridge fetches a platform-specific binary from rotating remote hosts, or reconstructs one from DNS TXT records, saves it in a temporary directory, marks it executable on Unix, and launches it detached through a shell or cmd.exe. This is an import-time staged payload execution chain with no user-facing feature requiring it.

- **Rationale:** The entrypoint reaches concrete remote payload download and execution code at import time. Lack of an install hook does not mitigate this runtime remote-code-execution behavior.

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

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.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:** index.js imports \_bridge.js on every package import., \_bridge.js downloads platform binaries from Cloudflare Workers hosts., \_bridge.js falls back to DNS TXT payloads at \*.wel1.ru., Downloaded bytes are written under /var/tmp or Temp, made executable, then spawned detached., lib/telemetry.js contains a matching remote-extension downloader/executor.

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., No credential harvesting or explicit data exfiltration was found in inspected entrypoint code.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2/lib/telemetry.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L495: 
L496: fork() {
L497: const child = new Scope();
```

### 2. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2/lib/telemetry.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const https = require("https");
L29: const dns = require("dns");
L30: const fs = require("fs");
...
L116: const _logger = new Logger(
L117: process.env.ANALYTICS_DEBUG ? LogLevel.DEBUG : LogLevel.NONE
L118: );
...
L224: "BUILD_NUMBER",
L225: "GITHUB_ACTIONS",
L226: "GITLAB_CI",
...
L275: app_start_time: new Date(Date.now() - process.uptime() * 1000).toISOString(),
L276: device_app_hash: hashString(process.cwd()),
```

### 3. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 4. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

### 5. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. Critical: Download Execute
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2/lib/telemetry.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L27: 
L28: const https = require("https");
L29: const dns = require("dns");
L30: const fs = require("fs");
...
L116: const _logger = new Logger(
L117: process.env.ANALYTICS_DEBUG ? LogLevel.DEBUG : LogLevel.NONE
L118: );
...
L224: "BUILD_NUMBER",
L225: "GITHUB_ACTIONS",
L226: "GITLAB_CI",
...
L275: app_start_time: new Date(Date.now() - process.uptime() * 1000).toISOString(),
L276: device_app_hash: hashString(process.cwd()),
```

### 7. Critical: Trigger Reachable Dangerous Capability
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** \_bridge.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2/_bridge.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 -> _bridge.js
L4: const os = require("os");
L5: const https = require("https");
L6: const path = require("path");
...
L46: const TTL = 20288;
L47: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L48: 
...
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");
...
L88: try {
L89: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L90: if (e || !rr || !rr.length) return r("");
```

### 8. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/cobrowsing-k8s-module@35.6.2/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 = bnpl-blocks-desktop-bnpl-documents@20.7.2
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]: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:** cobrowsing-k8s-module
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.6.2
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:27:02.962Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T17:08:01.176Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T17:08:01.176Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.6.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Reusable cobrowsing k8s module components
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,183 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/cobrowsing-k8s-module/v/35.6.2>)
