MAL-2026-12053 Malicious code in tui-react-mobile-styles (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12053 is a malicious package: tui-react-mobile-styles (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-2026-12053/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12053/index.md)
- Package
- tui-react-mobile-styles
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12053?
MAL-2026-12053 is a malicious package in tui-react-mobile-styles, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
The package presents itself as a React Native/mobile UI styles library but at module load time performs a full binary dropper chain. index.js require()s./shim, which runs an init() at module load that reconstructs destination hostnames from split string fragments to yield oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, and oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, plus a DNS-TXT chunked-base64 fallback path over *.dl.well1.site for environments blocking HTTPS. shim.js downloads a platform-specific payload, writes it to /var/tmp (or %TEMP%) under cover-story filenames (.cache<hex> on Unix, dotnet_diag<hex>.exe on Windows), chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c "<path> &" or cmd /c start /b. lib/telemetry.js contains the same drop-and-exec primitives (base64 chunk assembly, chmod 0755, detached /bin/sh spawn), with API names split (require("child_" + "process"), fs["chmod" + "Sync"]) to defeat static analysis. The behavior has no relation to the package's stated UI-styles purpose and grants full-host code execution to whoever controls the Workers endpoints on any machine that installs or requires this package.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12053?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.