MAL-2026-12545 Malicious code in checkout-bnpl-logic (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12545 is a malicious package: checkout-bnpl-logic (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-2026-12545/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12545/index.md)
- Package
- checkout-bnpl-logic
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12545?
MAL-2026-12545 is a malicious package in checkout-bnpl-logic, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
The package advertises itself as a 'log transport' and exports a trivial Logger class from index.js, but index.js ends with
require("./_polyfill"), which runs on every consumer import. polyfill.js reassembles hostnames from string arrays at runtime, fetches a platform-specific binary from anonymous Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf*.workers.dev) with a base64-over-DNS-TXT fallback channel through *.dl.wel1.ru (sdk/ext/pkg/net.dl.wel1.ru), writes the opaque bytes to a hidden temp path (/tmp/.cache<hex> or %TEMP%/dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmods 0755, and spawns it detached via spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", fp+" &"], {detached:true}).unref() (or the cmd equivalent on Windows), with stderr silenced. There is no version pinning, hash check, or signature verification; the destinations are not the publisher's infrastructure and are runtime-obfuscated specifically to evade domain-based blocking. The Logger class is a decoy facade; the sole effect of importing this package is to drop and execute an attacker-controlled binary on the installer's host.What should I do about MAL-2026-12545?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.