MAL-2026-12554 Malicious code in checkout-desktop-bnpl (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
checkout-desktop-bnpl
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-12554?

MAL-2026-12554 is a malicious package in checkout-desktop-bnpl, published on 5 Aug 2026.

Official description

The package presents itself as a checkout/BNPL library but exports an empty CheckoutDesktopBnpl class with no BNPL functionality. On require() of the main module, index.js loads polyfill.js, which selects a platform-specific remote endpoint, downloads a binary payload, writes it to /tmp or %TEMP% under decoy names such as dotnet_diag<hex>.exe or.cache_<hex>, chmods it 0755 on Unix, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd. Destination hostnames are obfuscated via array-join string splitting and resolve to Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev) with a DNS-over-TXT fallback channel that queries c.<domain> and N.<domain> TXT records at sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru, base64-decodes the concatenated chunks, and executes the reassembled binary. There is no hash or signature verification, and the delivery hosts are unpinned and attacker-controlled. Any process that imports this package triggers arbitrary remote code execution on the installer's machine.

What should I do about MAL-2026-12554?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

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