{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including boxy-page-story.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13074 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-2026-13074 is a malicious package in boxy-page-story, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13074 is a malicious package: boxy-page-story (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-2026-13074/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13074/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13074","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13074/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13074","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, index.js loads./_runtime, which reconstructs C2 hostnames from string-array concatenation to hide four oob-worker.cf1{00,01,02,03}-*.workers.dev endpoints and a wel1.ru DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback (chunk-count TXT at c.\u003cdomain\u003e, base64 chunks at \u003cn\u003e.\u003cdomain\u003e, reassembled and base64-decoded). A platform-specific binary is downloaded, written to /tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_\u003chex\u003e on Unix, dotnet_diag_\u003chex\u003e.exe on Windows), chmod 0755'd, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c \"\u003cpath\u003e \u0026\" or cmd.exe /c start /b. No hash or signature verification; hosts are attacker-controlled non-publisher infrastructure. Fetch is gated by absence of a recent cache file and DO_NOT_TRACK-style env vars. index.js wraps the require in try/catch to swallow errors silently.","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-page-story (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13074","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-page-story","purl":"pkg:npm/boxy-page-story","source":"MAL-2026-13074"}],"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-2026-13074/"}