MAL-2026-13526 Malicious code in bigops-shared-product-design (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13526 is a malicious package: bigops-shared-product-design (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-2026-13526/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13526/index.md)
- Package
- bigops-shared-product-design
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13526?
MAL-2026-13526 is a malicious package in bigops-shared-product-design, published on 7 Aug 2026.
Official description
[email protected] ships adapter.js, which is unconditionally loaded via index.js on require(). On load it fetches a platform-specific native binary from hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf101-a.workers.dev, cf99-9b3.workers.dev, cf100-416.workers.dev), with a DNS-TXT fallback that queries resolver domains under dl.wel1.ru (sdk./ext./pkg./net.). The fetched bytes are written to /tmp/.cache<rand> on Unix or %TEMP%/dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe on Windows, chmod'd to 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd /c start. Destinations and resolver domains are assembled at runtime by joining fragmented string literals (["oob-worker.cf101-a","df.workers.","dev"].join(""), ['sdk.dl.wel1.r','u'].join(""), require("child_"+"process")) to evade static analysis. No hash pinning, no signature check, destinations unrelated to any documented publisher. A sibling module lib/telemetry.js contains the same download-chmod-spawn pattern with base64-decoded chunks, indicating a shared dropper toolkit. Masquerade filenames (dotnet_diag,.cache_<rand>), /tmp staging, detached spawn, and DNS-TXT chunked fallback are canonical dropper tradecraft.
What should I do about MAL-2026-13526?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.