MAL-2026-12137 Malicious code in accounts-timeline (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12137 is a malicious package: accounts-timeline (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-2026-12137/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12137/index.md)
- Package
- accounts-timeline
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12137?
MAL-2026-12137 is a malicious package in accounts-timeline, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require of the package's main entry, index.js loads setup.js, which schedules a platform-selection routine via process.nextTick. Depending on OS/arch, setup.js selects one of /pkg/package, /pkg/package.exe, /pkg/loader_mac, or /pkg/package-arm64 and invokes lib/telemetry.js runtime.run(), which fetches bytes from hardcoded remote endpoints, base64-decodes them, writes them to /var/tmp (or %TEMP% on Windows), chmods 0755, and executes the resulting binary. The destination hostnames (package-proxy.cf5oob.workers.dev, package-proxy.cf8oob.workers.dev, package-proxy.cf12oob.workers.dev, package-proxy.cf17-ddb.workers.dev, package-proxy.cf25-6eb.workers.dev, and tin/tina/ldr/win subdomains of dl.well1.site) are assembled at runtime from split-string arrays via.join(""), and sensitive API names (child_process, fs.chmodSync, os.hostname, os.platform) are reassembled from property-name concatenation to evade static analysis. setup.js additionally computes an installFingerprint from os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, process.cwd(), process.version, and process.pid, sha256-hashes it, and passes it as installId in the fetch request, causing installer host identifiers to be transmitted to the same attacker-controlled endpoints. The package presents itself as an accounts SDK and has no legitimate need for a platform-branched binary fetch-decode-chmod-exec pipeline pointed at anonymous Cloudflare Workers subdomains.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12137?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.