beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-descriptionnpm
beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12826) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 35.7.7). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description (npm)
What this malware does
On require() of the package main, loader.js selects an OS-specific endpoint, downloads a binary via https.get from one of several hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), writes it to /tmp/.cache<hex> or %TEMP%\dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe, chmods 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b. If HTTPS retrieval fails, the loader falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel: it queries TXT records under *.dl.wel1.ru subdomains (sdk/ext/pkg/net.dl.wel1.ru), concatenates base64 chunks across sequentially-numbered records, decodes, writes, and executes the payload. No hash or signature verification is performed. C2 hostnames are assembled at runtime via array.join("") splits to evade static string matching, and the code is framed with cover-story names (analytics_state, dotnet_diag_, DISABLE_TELEMETRY opt-out) unrelated to the package's declared Storybook-addon purpose. Fetched destinations are unrelated to the publisher's stated purpose, and the payload is attacker-controlled arbitrary code executed on the installer's machine at package load time.
Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description (version 35.7.7). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks beaver-ui-storybook-addon-code-description-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.