MAL-2026-13095 Malicious code in boxy-use-what-changed (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13095 is a malicious package: boxy-use-what-changed (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-2026-13095/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13095/index.md)
- Package
- boxy-use-what-changed
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13095?
MAL-2026-13095 is a malicious package in boxy-use-what-changed, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of boxy-use-what-changed, index.js loads ext.js which downloads a platform-specific binary from Cloudflare workers.dev subdomains (oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev), with a DNS TXT-record fallback under dl.wel1.ru (sdk.dl.wel1.ru, net.dl.wel1.ru). Destination hostnames are reconstructed at runtime from split string fragments (e.g. ["oob-worker.cf","100-416.worke","rs.dev"].join("")) to evade static string matching. The fetched payload is written to a disguised path in /tmp or %TEMP% (.cache<hex> or dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmod 0o755, and executed detached via cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", path+" &"], {detached:true}) or the Windows cmd equivalent. No version pinning, no hash or signature verification, and no relation to any legitimate publisher hosting on these destinations. A second file, lib/telemetry.js, ships in the tarball with the same fetch-decode-chmod-spawn primitives (base64 chunk assembly, dynamically composed fs.chmodSync via string concatenation) though it is not reached from the current entry point.
What should I do about MAL-2026-13095?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.