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Malicious MAL-2026-13653

sme-rko-finance-front-payment-registers-operations-domain

npm package · versions 35.8.1

Reported Aug 8, 2026 · Updated Aug 8, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: amazon-inspector (5b21f700cd5e3a5eb33a34fa9e3a9754e73e5794ee1cc57ada01344004a8c921)
index.js unconditionally loads _runtime.js on require. _runtime.js detects the host OS and architecture, then downloads an opaque platform-matched binary over HTTPS from hardcoded Cloudflare workers.dev subdomains (oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev). If HTTPS retrieval fails, it falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel under *.dl.wel1.ru, requesting a chunk-count TXT record at c.<domain> and then reassembling base64-encoded payload chunks from N.<domain> TXT queries. The reassembled bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised filename (.cache_<rand> or dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe mimicking a.NET diagnostic tool), chmodded 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b. Both the CDN hostnames and the fallback resolver domains are constructed by Array.join of split fragments to evade string scanning. The delivered binary is unpinned, unverified, opaque, and served from anonymous edge-worker infrastructure and a.ru DNS channel unrelated to any legitimate publisher of a finance/payment-registers package.