MAL-2026-12964 Malicious code in bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-origination (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-12964 is a malicious package: bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-origination (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-2026-12964/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12964/index.md)
- Package
- bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-origination
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- npm
What is MAL-2026-12964?
MAL-2026-12964 is a malicious package in bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-origination, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require of the package's main entry, runtime.js downloads a platform-specific binary from Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are reassembled at runtime from split string fragments (oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a DNS-chunked base64 fallback channel over subdomains of dl.wel1.ru (sdk, ext, pkg, net). The downloaded bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under decoy names (.cache<hex>, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe,.analytics_state), chmod'd to 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd. Destination hostnames and DNS domains are assembled via Array.join from fragmented literals to evade static analysis, and the module presents itself as an analytics/telemetry SDK with opt-out env checks (DISABLE_TELEMETRY, ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT, DO_NOT_TRACK) as cover. A sibling module lib/telemetry.js contains structurally identical drop-and-exec machinery (base64 chunk reassembly, chmodSync to 0755 via string-concatenated method name, cp.spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', filePath + ' &'])). Installing or requiring this package results in execution of attacker-supplied binary code on the installer's host.
What should I do about MAL-2026-12964?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.