MAL-2026-12949

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    MAL-2026-12949

    Published: 5 Aug 2026Last Modified: 5 Aug 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-anchor (npm)

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (79e1b9234ec9e2447ea3f3a53a8e4a16e4323d7f1138c2f0bedb4bc25fa43a1e) On require('bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-anchor'), index.js loads _helpers.js which selects a per-platform payload, downloads an opaque binary from one of several Cloudflare Workers subdomains (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev), with a DNS-TXT fallback to sdk.dl.wel1.ru, writes the payload to /tmp/.cache_<hex> on Unix or %TEMP%\dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows, chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe. Destination hostnames are assembled from split string arrays (e.g. ['oob-worker.cf99','-9b3.workers.d','ev'].join('')) to evade static analysis. A hidden idempotency marker (/tmp/.analytics_state or %TEMP%\analytics_state) and env-var opt-outs (DISABLE_TELEMETRY, ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT, DO_NOT_TRACK) plus filenames like dotnet_diag_<uid>.exe give the loader a telemetry/diagnostics cover story. The fetched destinations are anonymous workers.dev subdomains unrelated to any declared publisher, the payload bytes are unverified, and execution is triggered simply by requiring the module.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-anchor

    Purl: pkg:npm/bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-anchor

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    35.6.5
    MAL-2026-12949 | CVE-DB