MAL-2026-13543 Malicious code in devplatform-api-v1-resources (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13543 is a malicious package: devplatform-api-v1-resources (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-2026-13543/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13543/index.md)
- Package
- devplatform-api-v1-resources
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13543?
MAL-2026-13543 is a malicious package in devplatform-api-v1-resources, published on 7 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require of the package's main entry, setup.js fetches a platform-specific binary from Cloudflare Workers hosts whose names are reassembled at runtime from fragment arrays (e.g. oob-worker.cf101-*.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev) with a DNS TXT fallback under *.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to /var/tmp or the Windows TEMP directory under disguised names (dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe,.cache_<hex>), chmod'd to 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh on POSIX or cmd on Windows. No hash or signature verification is performed. A second copy of the same download-write-chmod-spawn pattern, using base64 chunk assembly and string-concatenated API names (fs["chmod"+"Sync"]), is shipped in lib/telemetry.js under the guise of a telemetry SDK. C2 hostnames are split into small fragments and joined at runtime to defeat static analysis, and endpoints rotate across multiple workers.dev subdomains with a.ru DNS fallback.
What should I do about MAL-2026-13543?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.