{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including eacq-acq-menu.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13205 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-13205 is a malicious package in eacq-acq-menu, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13205 is a malicious package: eacq-acq-menu (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13205/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13205/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13205","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13205/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13205","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"On require() of the package, index.js loads _adapter.js which unconditionally executes a setup routine that fetches a platform-specific binary from runtime-reconstructed hosts (Cloudflare workers.dev subdomains such as oob-worker.cf10x-baf.workers.dev and *.dl.wel1.ru domains including sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, net.dl.wel1.ru), writes it to /tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story filenames (.cache_\u003chex\u003e, dotnet_diag_\u003chex\u003e.exe), chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via spawn(\"/bin/sh\") or spawn(\"cmd\"). Destination hostnames are assembled by.join(\"\") of split substrings to defeat static string scanning, and a dnsChunked() routine reassembles a base64 payload from numbered TXT DNS records (c.\u003cdomain\u003e, 0.\u003cdomain\u003e, 1.\u003cdomain\u003e,...) as a fallback delivery channel. The package advertises itself as a menu-provider library and performs no such function; the only observable effect of installing/importing it is delivery and execution of an opaque remote binary on the installer's host.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in eacq-acq-menu (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13205","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"eacq-acq-menu","purl":"pkg:npm/eacq-acq-menu","source":"MAL-2026-13205"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13205/"}