MAL-2026-12715 Malicious code in devplatform-iam-client (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12715 is a malicious package: devplatform-iam-client (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-2026-12715/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12715/index.md)
- Package
- devplatform-iam-client
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12715?
MAL-2026-12715 is a malicious package in devplatform-iam-client, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
The package presents a no-op DevplatformIamClient export, but index.js unconditionally require()s./init.js on load. init.js selects a platform-specific path, reconstructs Cloudflare Workers endpoints from split string arrays (oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev) and a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback under sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, net.dl.wel1.ru (base64 chunks reassembled from TXT records), downloads an opaque binary, writes it to a disguised path (/tmp/.cache<hex> or %TEMP%/dotnet_diag<hex>.exe), chmods 0755 on POSIX, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd. No hash or signature verification is performed. Endpoint hostnames are assembled at runtime via array-join to evade static extraction, and the staged file names ('.analytics_state', 'dotnet_diag_*.exe') act as cover. The package name, 'Internal devplatform iam client module' description, empty dependencies, and stub main are consistent with a dependency-confusion lure against an internal registry name; the harm is full-host code execution on the installer at require() time.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12715?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.