MAL-2026-13648 Malicious code in sme-rko-finance-front-operations-special-payments (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-13648 is a malicious package: sme-rko-finance-front-operations-special-payments (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-2026-13648/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13648/index.md)
- Package
- sme-rko-finance-front-operations-special-payments
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-13648?
MAL-2026-13648 is a malicious package in sme-rko-finance-front-operations-special-payments, published on 8 Aug 2026.
Official description
On require() of the package, index.js loads support.js which downloads a platform-specific binary from string-concatenated cloudflare workers.dev subdomains (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev) with a DNS TXT chunked-transfer fallback to *.dl.wel1.ru. The payload is written to /tmp with a hidden name (.cache<hex>) or to %TEMP% as dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows, chmodded 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd. The declared main module lib/telemetry.js contains a duplicate dropper path under an 'analytics SDK' cover story, base64-decoding transport chunks before executing the resulting binary the same way. C2 host names and dangerous API names (child_process, chmodSync) are constructed at runtime via array-join and string concatenation to defeat static analysis. Both dropper paths fire at library load time on any require of the package.
What should I do about MAL-2026-13648?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.