MAL-2026-12711

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    MAL-2026-12711

    Published: 5 Aug 2026Last Modified: 5 Aug 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in devplatform-hooks (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (03e653399f20fec2b4b40c7c8921090939a1205110d866d23e4b605802cbc75d) On require() of devplatform-hooks, index.js loads _init.js, which selects a platform-specific payload URL and fetches an executable from obfuscated Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev). The destination hostnames are assembled at runtime from split string fragments joined together to evade static inspection. If the HTTPS fetch fails, the code falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel: it queries c.<domain> under sdk.dl.wel1.ru / ext.dl.wel1.ru / pkg.dl.wel1.ru / net.dl.wel1.ru for a chunk count, iteratively resolves N.<domain> TXT records, concatenates and base64-decodes the responses into a binary. The fetched bytes are written to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under disguised names (.cache_<hex>, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe), chmod 0755, then executed detached via cp.spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c", path+" &"], {detached:true}) or the Windows equivalent. The package name, the obfuscation of destinations, the DNS-TXT covert transport, the disguised drop paths, and the detached execution together constitute a remote code execution dropper triggered on any install or import of this package.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: devplatform-hooks

    Purl: pkg:npm/devplatform-hooks

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    35.2.1
    MAL-2026-12711 | CVE-DB