MAL-2026-13095 Malicious code in boxy-use-what-changed (npm)

Malicious package Published
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.

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