MAL-2026-12449 Malicious code in statist-browser-typed-client-mb.reliability.android.metrics (npm)

Malicious package Published
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.

Sources

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