MAL-2026-13001 Malicious code in bnpl-blocks-mobile-bnpl-picture-gallery (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13001 is a malicious package: bnpl-blocks-mobile-bnpl-picture-gallery (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-2026-13001/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13001/index.md)
- Package
- bnpl-blocks-mobile-bnpl-picture-gallery
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13001?
MAL-2026-13001 is a malicious package in bnpl-blocks-mobile-bnpl-picture-gallery, published on 5 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require(), bootstrap.js selects a platform-specific asset path and downloads a binary from one of several Cloudflare Workers hostnames whose names are assembled at runtime by joining substring arrays (e.g. 'oob-w'+'orker.cf103-070'+'.workers.dev'), with a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback under *.dl.wel1.ru that reassembles a base64-encoded payload from numbered TXT records if HTTPS retrieval fails. The fetched bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under disguised names (e.g. 'dotnet_diag.exe', '.cache_'), chmod 0755, and spawned detached via child_process (spawn('cmd'…) or spawn('/bin/sh',…)). The package advertises itself as a 'platform adapter' / 'picture gallery' — remote binary execution is not the stated purpose. A second, cover-story-labeled ('analytics-sdk') copy of the same dropper ships at lib/telemetry.js with parallel HTTPS+DNS discovery, base64 chunk assembly, chmod 0755, and spawn('/bin/sh',['-c', filePath + ' &']).
What should I do about MAL-2026-13001?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.