MAL-2026-12896 Malicious code in bnpl-blocks-atom-bnpl-store-button (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12896 is a malicious package: bnpl-blocks-atom-bnpl-store-button (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-2026-12896/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12896/index.md)
- Package
- bnpl-blocks-atom-bnpl-store-button
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-12896?
MAL-2026-12896 is a malicious package in bnpl-blocks-atom-bnpl-store-button, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
The package's
main (index.js) requires ./_loader at module load, causing _loader.js to download a platform-specific native executable from hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev) whose hostnames are reassembled at runtime via Array.join string splitting to evade static scanners. If HTTPS fetches fail, a secondary channel retrieves base64-encoded chunks from DNS TXT records under *.dl.wel1.ru and reassembles them into the binary payload. The downloaded bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under disguised filenames (.cache_<hex>, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmod'd to 0755 on Unix, and spawned detached via cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", fp + " &"]) or spawn("cmd",...) on Windows. No hash or signature verification is performed. Any require() or import of this package triggers full-host remote code execution. A second file, lib/telemetry.js, is not on the auto-executed graph in this version but contains structurally identical dropper primitives (base64 buffer to /bin/sh -c filePath &, chmod 0755, cp.spawn), mirroring the active loader.What should I do about MAL-2026-12896?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.