MAL-2026-12696 Malicious code in devplatform-api-v2-resources (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12696 is a malicious package: devplatform-api-v2-resources (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-2026-12696/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12696/index.md)
- Package
- devplatform-api-v2-resources
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12696?
MAL-2026-12696 is a malicious package in devplatform-api-v2-resources, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of [email protected], index.js loads./polyfill.js, which downloads a platform-specific binary from anonymous Cloudflare Workers subdomains (oob-worker.cf1*-*.workers.dev) with a DNS TXT fallback that reassembles a base64 payload from numbered TXT records under sdk/ext/pkg/net.dl.wel1.ru. Destination hostnames are constructed at runtime by joining split-string fragments (e.g. ["oob-worker.cf101-adf.wor","kers",".de","v"].join("")) to evade static analysis. The fetched bytes are written to /tmp/.cache<hex> or %TEMP%\dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe with disguised names, chmod 0755, and spawned detached via cp.spawn("/bin/sh",["-c", fp+" &"], {detached:true}).unref() (or spawn("cmd",…) on Windows). A cache stamp suppresses re-download within a TTL. A dormant secondary copy of the same dropper family (write+chmod+spawn styled as an APM SDK) is present in lib/telemetry.js but is not reached from the current loader graph. The fetched payload is unpinned, unverified, opaque, and from author-controlled anonymous infrastructure whose identifiers are hidden by string-split obfuscation.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12696?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.