MAL-2026-5426 Malicious code in @oplus/obus-web-sdk-plugin-recovery (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-5426 is a malicious package: @oplus/obus-web-sdk-plugin-recovery (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-2026-5426/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5426/index.md)
- Package
- @oplus/obus-web-sdk-plugin-recovery
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-5426?
MAL-2026-5426 is a malicious package in @oplus/obus-web-sdk-plugin-recovery, published on 9 Jun 2026.
Official description
@oplus/[email protected] publishes to a likely-private internal scope at an artificially high version to win resolution against an organization's internal package. On
npm install, scripts/postinstall.js executes automatically and: (1) reads os.userInfo().username, os.hostname(), and process.cwd(); (2) fetches the installer's public IP from api.ipify.org; (3) hex-encodes the collected fields and issues a DNS lookup of <payload>.xjaipnfhcpawuhzlgzkzo1ak3aai9m873.oast.fun, leaking the data via the subdomain label to an interactsh out-of-band C2; (4) base64-encodes the same payload and sends it as an x-poc header in an HTTPS GET to https://xjaipnfhcpawuhzlgzkzo1ak3aai9m873.oast.fun/poc. The file labels itself a 'Dependency Confusion PoC - Bug Bounty Research,' but the runtime behavior is unconditional exfiltration of installer identity to a third-party endpoint, with no opt-out, on every install. Combined with the 99.99.99 version pin against the @oplus scope, this is the classic dependency-confusion attack shape and is harmful to any installer who resolves it.What should I do about MAL-2026-5426?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.