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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tcb-web-images/v/20.5.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tcb-web-images/v/20.5.3.md"
package: "tcb-web-images"
report_status: "published"
title: "tcb-web-images@20.5.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "20.5.3"
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# tcb-web-images@20.5.3 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 20.5.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-12477 confirms this npm version as malicious. On \`require('tcb-web-images')\`, index.js loads \_helpers.js which immediately runs a setup routine that selects an OS/arch-specific URL path and downloads a binary over HTTPS from one of four Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are assembled at runtime by joining string-array fragments (\`oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev\`, \`oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev\`, \`oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev\`,...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

On \`require('tcb-web-images')\`, index.js loads \_helpers.js which immediately runs a setup routine that selects an OS/arch-specific URL path and downloads a binary over HTTPS from one of four Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are assembled at runtime by joining string-array fragments (\`oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev\`, \`oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev\`, \`oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev\`, \`oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev\`), with a DNS-TXT chunked fallback under \`\*.dl.well1.site\`. The downloaded bytes are written to \`/var/tmp\` or \`%TEMP%\` under disguised names mimicking system utilities (\`.cache\_\<rand\>\` on Unix, \`dotnet\_diag\_\<rand\>.exe\` on Windows), chmod'd 0755, and detach-spawned via \`/bin/sh -c '\<path\> &'\` or \`cmd.exe\`. A freshness marker is stored as \`.analytics\_state\` and stderr is silenced by a no-op logger. A second, larger copy of the same dropper is shipped as \`lib/telemetry.js\` under an 'analytics SDK' cover story, using additional string-concatenation obfuscation (\`require("child\_" + "process")\`, \`fs\["chmod"+"Sync"\]\`); it is not referenced by the current index.js but is bundled at the tarball root. The package is advertised as a 'lightweight images wrapper' — the dropper behavior is unrelated to that purpose, the destinations are author-controlled and obfuscated to defeat scanners, and the delivered bytes are an opaque native executable with no publisher provenance, integrity check, or version pinning.

## 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:** tcb-web-images
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 20.5.3
- **Version published:** 2026-08-02T10:39:18.538Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T14:00:11.823Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-05T15:02:50.419Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tcb-web-images/v/20.5.3>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12477>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/tcb-web-images/v/20.5.3>)