MAL-2026-12972

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    MAL-2026-12972

    Published: 5 Aug 2026Last Modified: 5 Aug 2026

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

    Details: Source: amazon-inspector (6bc1ec9ae3c3510564b412ad20157f80b59ebe816ceda37ee01a3a46fd146b3f) On require of this package, index.js loads _compat.js which unconditionally bootstraps a dropper. It selects a platform-specific payload path, fetches an opaque executable from one of three Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev) with a DNS-TXT chunked-base64 fallback via sdk.dl.wel1.ru / ext.dl.wel1.ru / pkg.dl.wel1.ru, writes it to /tmp or %TEMP% under a disguised name (.cache_<hex> on POSIX, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows), chmods 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b. No hash or signature verification is performed. Destination hostnames are reconstructed at runtime by joining fragmented string arrays (e.g. ['sdk.dl.','wel1','.ru'].join(''), ['oob-worker.cf102-','baf.','work','ers','.d','ev'].join('')), and the dropped-file names impersonate benign diagnostic tooling (dotnet_diag). A stale-marker gates re-execution across imports.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-text-block

    Purl: pkg:npm/bnpl-blocks-independent-bnpl-text-block

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    35.7.1
    MAL-2026-12972 | CVE-DB