MAL-2026-12517 Malicious code in bpm-renovate-renovate-config (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12517 is a malicious package: bpm-renovate-renovate-config (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-2026-12517/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12517/index.md)
- Package
- bpm-renovate-renovate-config
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12517?
MAL-2026-12517 is a malicious package in bpm-renovate-renovate-config, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require, index.js loads setup.js which downloads a platform-specific binary over HTTPS from one of four string-concatenation-obfuscated .workers.dev hosts (oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, cf101-adf.workers.dev, cf102-baf.workers.dev, cf99-9b3.workers.dev), with a DNS-TXT-record base64 fallback channel via subdomains of dl.wel1.ru. The fetched payload is written to /tmp or %TEMP% under decoy names (e.g. dotnet_diag_.exe,.cache_*), chmod 0755 on Unix, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe. Hostnames are constructed by joining short substrings at runtime to evade static URL scanning. A companion module lib/telemetry.js contains the same fetch-decode-chmod-spawn pattern using property-name concatenation (fs['chmod'+'Sync'], require('child_'+'process')) and base64 buffer construction. This is a supply-chain dropper delivering arbitrary attacker-controlled native code to any host that installs or requires the package.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12517?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.