MAL-2026-13046

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    MAL-2026-13046

    Published: 5 Aug 2026Last Modified: 5 Aug 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in boxy-fixture-pendel (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (dbad559799410017202aafce879de36d171f9480e4cd995e4e5fe5cb3bddb830) On require('boxy-fixture-pendel'), index.js loads _support.js which asynchronously downloads a platform-specific binary from obfuscated destinations assembled at runtime via string-array.join('') — oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev and related Cloudflare Workers subdomains, with a DNS-TXT-record fallback channel that reassembles a base64-encoded binary from numbered TXT records under net.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story filenames (dotnet_diag_*.exe,.cache_*), chmod'd 0755, and spawned detached via cp.spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', filePath + ' &'], {detached: true}) or the Windows equivalent. There is no hash or signature verification, and the download destinations are unrelated to the package publisher. A second copy of the same dropper (split-concat hosts, /bin/sh -c spawn, chmod 0755, base64 buffer reassembly) is bundled in lib/telemetry.js under 'Analytics SDK' scaffolding; it is present in the tarball but not reached from index.js in this version. TTL caching and env-var opt-outs are included to reduce repeat triggering and aid evasion.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: boxy-fixture-pendel

    Purl: pkg:npm/boxy-fixture-pendel

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    35.8.9