{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including boxy-mif-tokens.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13068 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-13068 is a malicious package in boxy-mif-tokens, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13068 is a malicious package: boxy-mif-tokens (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13068/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13068/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13068","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13068/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13068","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require() of this package, index.js loads _bridge.js which downloads a platform-specific native executable from string-split obfuscated Cloudflare Workers hostnames (reassembled at runtime via [\"...\",\"...\"].join(\"\")) with a DNS TXT-record base64 fallback channel over *.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under decoy names such as.cache_\u003chex\u003e and dotnet_diag_\u003chex\u003e.exe, chmod 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c '\u003cpath\u003e \u0026' on Unix or cmd /c start /b on Windows, using child_process.spawn(...).unref(). The package presents itself as a token SDK and has no legitimate need to fetch and execute an unpinned, unhashed native binary from non-publisher infrastructure. Hostname reassembly, DNS-over-TXT delivery fallback, hidden staging paths, and decoy filenames are evasion characteristics of a dropper, not of a normal SDK download.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in boxy-mif-tokens (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13068","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"boxy-mif-tokens","purl":"pkg:npm/boxy-mif-tokens","source":"MAL-2026-13068"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13068/"}