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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/devplatform-iam-client/v/35.5.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/devplatform-iam-client/v/35.5.6.md"
package: "devplatform-iam-client"
report_status: "published"
title: "devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "35.5.6"
---

# devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary remote code execution in the importing process's user context.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 35.5.6
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package launches a covert downloader. It retrieves a native payload, drops it to temporary storage, and executes it detached.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T16:37:09.704Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T16:37:37.749Z
- **Download time:** 250 ms
- **Static scan time:** 32 ms
- **AI review time:** 27762 ms
- **Total time:** 28045 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package launches a covert downloader. It retrieves a native payload, drops it to temporary storage, and executes it detached.

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

- **Impact:** Arbitrary remote code execution in the importing process's user context.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-05T16:37:37.749Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** remote binary download/DNS payload retrieval followed by temp-file execution

- **Attack narrative:** A normal import of index.js silently requires \_init.js. Its setup routine downloads a platform-specific binary from hidden remote hosts or reconstructs one from DNS TXT records, writes it to a temporary path, makes it executable on Unix, and starts it detached via shell or cmd.exe. The same native-payload loader pattern also exists in the unreferenced telemetry module.

- **Rationale:** Source establishes an import-time remote payload download and detached execution chain; this is concrete malicious behavior, not ordinary telemetry.

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

- **Network endpoints:** oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.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 \_init.js on every package import., \_init.js downloads a platform binary from obfuscated workers.dev hosts., \_init.js falls back to DNS TXT payload retrieval from \*.wel1.ru., Downloaded bytes are written under /var/tmp or Windows Temp, chmodded, and detached-spawned., No lifecycle hook is needed: ordinary require() triggers setup().

- **Evidence against:** package.json has no lifecycle scripts., The public client wrapper itself is minimal, but it unconditionally loads the payload loader.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Child Process
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** \_init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6/_init.js>)

Package source references child process execution.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L122: try {
L123: const cp = require("child_process");
L124: 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:** \_init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6/_init.js>)

Source downloads or fetches remote code and executes it.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L6: const fs = require("fs");
L7: const https = require("https");
L8: 
...
L45: const MAX_AGE = 21946;
L46: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L47: 
...
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");
...
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:** \_init.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6/_init.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 -> _init.js
L6: const fs = require("fs");
L7: const https = require("https");
L8: 
...
L45: const MAX_AGE = 21946;
L46: const _l = (...a) => process.stderr.write("");
L47: 
...
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");
...
L94: try {
L95: require("dns").resolveTxt(d, (e, rr) => {
L96: 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.

### 9. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 95.0%
- **Path:** lib/telemetry.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/devplatform-iam-client@35.5.6/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 = token_shingles
matchedPackage = bigops-telephony-ui@35.7.3
matchedPath = lib/telemetry.js
matchedIdentity = npm:Ymlnb3BzLXRlbGVwaG9ueS11aQ:35.7.3
similarity = 0.896
shingleOverlap = 43
summary = source token shingles overlapped 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:** devplatform-iam-client
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 35.5.6
- **Version published:** 2026-08-05T13:32:06.371Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T16:37:37.749Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T16:37:37.749Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 35.5.6
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Internal devplatform iam client module for platform services
- **Artifact files:** 7
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 87,531 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/devplatform-iam-client/v/35.5.6>)
