MAL-2026-12715 Malicious code in devplatform-iam-client (npm)

Malicious package Published
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.

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