boxy-fixture-paperclipnpm
boxy-fixture-paperclip is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13045) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 35.8.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in boxy-fixture-paperclip (npm)
What this malware does
On any require/import, index.js loads _adapter.js, which selects a platform-specific asset and downloads an opaque binary from a rotating set of Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev). The hostnames are reassembled at runtime via array-join to defeat static string extraction. The downloaded bytes are written to a hidden dot-file under /var/tmp (POSIX) or %TEMP% (Windows), chmod 0755'd, and executed detached via spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c',...]) or spawn('cmd',...). A DNS-TXT covert channel under sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru provides a fallback that chunk-reassembles a base64 payload from TXT records when the primary hosts are unreachable. The tarball also ships lib/telemetry.js, an ~81 KB parallel dropper module masquerading as a Sentry-like analytics SDK that is not referenced in this version but duplicates the _adapter.js payload-staging shape. Installing or importing this package results in execution of attacker-controlled code on the installer's machine.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for boxy-fixture-paperclip (version 35.8.2). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging boxy-fixture-paperclip across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove boxy-fixture-paperclip from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.
Did it already run?
If boxy-fixture-paperclip 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 boxy-fixture-paperclip 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 boxy-fixture-paperclip-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.