MAL-2026-12449 Malicious code in statist-browser-typed-client-mb.reliability.android.metrics (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12449 is a malicious package: statist-browser-typed-client-mb.reliability.android.metrics (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-2026-12449/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12449/index.md)
- Package
- statist-browser-typed-client-mb.reliability.android.metrics
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12449?
MAL-2026-12449 is a malicious package in statist-browser-typed-client-mb.reliability.android.metrics, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of the package, index.js loads loader.js which downloads a platform-specific binary from hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts assembled by string-array joins (oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a base64-chunked DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback via *.dl.well1.site. The fetched bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under disguised filenames (dotnet_diag<rand>.exe,.cache_<rand>), chmodded 0o755, and spawned detached via cmd.exe or /bin/sh. Destination hostnames are fragmented across string arrays and joined at runtime to defeat static string matching, and an environment-variable opt-out check is used to evade sandboxes. The package advertises itself as a telemetry exporter but ships a fetch-and-execute dropper reachable on import.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12449?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.