{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including pfa-autotests-reporter.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12185 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-12185 is a malicious package in pfa-autotests-reporter, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12185 is a malicious package: pfa-autotests-reporter (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12185/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12185/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12185","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12185/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12185","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-wxmr-mcwx-4c6q"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require, pfa-autotests-reporter loads _adapter.js which selects a platform-specific path, fetches a binary over HTTPS from one of four Cloudflare Workers endpoints whose hostnames are assembled at runtime via string-fragment joins (e.g. [\"oo\",\"b-worker.cf99\",\"-9b3.workers.de\",\"v\"].join(\"\")), with a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback via *.dl.well1.site (c.\u003cdomain\u003e for chunk count, \u003ci\u003e.\u003cdomain\u003e for base64 chunks reassembled via Buffer.from(parts.join(\"\"),\"base64\")). The retrieved bytes are written to /var/tmp/.cache_\u003chex\u003e on Unix or %TEMP%\\dotnet_diag_\u003chex\u003e.exe on Windows, marked executable, and launched detached via spawn(\"/bin/sh\",[\"-c\", fp+\" \u0026\"], {detached:true}) or cmd.exe /c start /b. A marker file throttles re-runs and an env-var opt-out provides cover. The package advertises itself as test fixtures and helpers; the fetch-and-execute behavior does not match that purpose.\n\nAny 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.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in pfa-autotests-reporter (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12185","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"pfa-autotests-reporter","purl":"pkg:npm/pfa-autotests-reporter","source":"MAL-2026-12185"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12185/"}