# MAL-2026-12227: Malicious code in tinkoff-boxy-atom-text-link (npm)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `tinkoff-boxy-atom-text-link` (npm)
- **Published:** 5 Aug 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-wc79-x38v-pmr3

## What is MAL-2026-12227?

MAL-2026-12227 is a malicious package in tinkoff-boxy-atom-text-link, published on 5 Aug 2026. 

### Official description

The package's index.js unconditionally requires./_loader on module load. _loader.js selects a platform-specific payload path and fetches bytes from one of three hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are assembled from split string fragments (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback across tin.dl.well1.site, tina.dl.well1.site, ldr.dl.well1.site, and win.dl.well1.site that reads a chunk count from c.<domain> and reassembles base64-encoded payload bytes from N.<domain> TXT records. The fetched bytes are written to a temp file with a decoy name (dotnet_diag_*.exe /.cache_*), chmod 0755 on POSIX, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c "<file> &" or cmd.exe /c start. A /tmp/.analytics_state marker rate-limits re-execution. A secondary module lib/telemetry.js bundled in the tarball replicates the same drop-and-exec primitives (string-split require of child_process, bracket-property chmodSync, base64 buffer decode, cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", filePath + " &"])). The package is advertised as a text-link provider; the shipped code has no relation to that purpose.

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## What should I do about MAL-2026-12227?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2026-12227 is a malicious package: tinkoff-boxy-atom-text-link (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12227/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12227/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12227

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12227/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.