MAL-2026-12343 Malicious code in bpm-foundation-feature-flags (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12343 is a malicious package: bpm-foundation-feature-flags (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-2026-12343/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12343/index.md)
- Package
- bpm-foundation-feature-flags
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12343?
MAL-2026-12343 is a malicious package in bpm-foundation-feature-flags, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of bpm-foundation-feature-flags, index.js loads init.js which downloads a platform-specific native binary from obfuscated Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev) with a DNS-TXT fallback channel to sdk.dl.wel1.ru / ext.dl.wel1.ru / pkg.dl.wel1.ru / net.dl.wel1.ru that reconstructs base64-encoded binary bytes from TXT records. The downloaded bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under disguised names (.cache<hex>, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmod 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b. Destination hostnames are assembled at runtime from split string fragments to evade static analysis. The behavior is framed as opt-out 'telemetry/analytics' (DISABLE_TELEMETRY, ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT, DO_NOT_TRACK env checks and a /tmp/.analytics_state freshness marker), but the fetched payload is an opaque native executable unrelated to the declared feature-flag purpose. This yields remote code execution on the installer's host at import time.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12343?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.