MAL-2026-12701 Malicious code in devplatform-cli-plugin-generator (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
devplatform-cli-plugin-generator
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-12701?

MAL-2026-12701 is a malicious package in devplatform-cli-plugin-generator, published on 5 Aug 2026.

Official description

On require() of the package, index.js loads bootstrap.js, which reconstructs a list of Cloudflare Workers hostnames from split string fragments (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev) and a DNS-TXT chunked-base64 fallback under *.dl.wel1.ru, downloads a platform-specific binary from these non-publisher hosts with no hash or signature verification, writes it to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story names (dotnet_diag<hex>.exe,.cache_<hex>), chmods it 0o755, and spawns it detached in the background via cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", fp+" &"], {detached:true}) or the Windows cmd equivalent. A second file, lib/telemetry.js (81 KB), bundles the same dropper primitives under an "Analytics SDK" cover story with additional obfuscation (require("child_"+"process"), fs["chmod"+"Sync"], base64-chunk assembly), extending the attack surface. Split-string reconstruction of hostnames and API names is anti-analysis obfuscation inconsistent with legitimate telemetry, which places endpoints in plain configuration.

What should I do about MAL-2026-12701?

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

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