MAL-2026-12723 Malicious code in devplatform-nx-gle (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12723 is a malicious package: devplatform-nx-gle (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-2026-12723/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12723/index.md)
- Package
- devplatform-nx-gle
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12723?
MAL-2026-12723 is a malicious package in devplatform-nx-gle, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of devplatform-nx-gle, index.js side-loads a sibling module bridge.js inside a swallowing try/catch. bridge.js reconstructs hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hostnames from split string fragments joined at runtime (oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev), downloads a platform-specific native executable via https.get, writes it under /tmp or %TEMP% with decoy filenames such as dotnet_diag<rand>.exe or.cache<rand>, chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c",…]) or spawn("cmd",…). A DNS TXT-record channel over sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru serves as a fallback delivery path. The advertised package purpose is a trivial no-op class described as a shared backend integration library; the dropper module is unrelated to that advertised API. Hostnames are constructed via string-join concatenation to defeat static string matching, and the try/catch around the _bridge require() silently suppresses failures.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12723?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.