MAL-2026-5426 Malicious code in @oplus/obus-web-sdk-plugin-recovery (npm)

Malicious package Published
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.

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