MAL-2026-12723

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/devplatform-nx-gle/MAL-2026-12723.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-12723
Published
2026-08-05T13:50:07Z
Modified
2026-08-05T14:36:42.636612697Z
Summary
Malicious code in devplatform-nx-gle (npm)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (5c9ada1c90c8e8217f9020f02c530477f38a6fd89338f415c815413498036faf)

On require() of devplatform-nx-gle, index.js side-loads a sibling module bridge.js inside a swallowing try/catch. bridge.js reconstructs hardcoded Cloudflare Workers hostnames from split string fragments joined at runtime (oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev), downloads a platform-specific native executable via https.get, writes it under /tmp or %TEMP% with decoy filenames such as dotnetdiag<rand>.exe or.cache_<rand>, chmods it 0755, and spawns it detached via spawn("/bin/sh", ["-c",...]) or spawn("cmd",...). A DNS TXT-record channel over sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru serves as a fallback delivery path. The advertised package purpose is a trivial no-op class described as a shared backend integration library; the dropper module is unrelated to that advertised API. Hostnames are constructed via string-join concatenation to defeat static string matching, and the try/catch around the _bridge require() silently suppresses failures.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2026-08-05T13:50:07Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "sha256": "5c9ada1c90c8e8217f9020f02c530477f38a6fd89338f415c815413498036faf",
            "import_time": "2026-08-05T14:19:57.526349012Z",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-015058",
            "versions": [
                "35.5.3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / devplatform-nx-gle

Package

Name
devplatform-nx-gle
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/devplatform-nx-gle

Affected ranges

Affected versions

35.*
35.5.3

Database specific

indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "devplatform-nx-gle-35.5.3.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-goicAaChHcQ/EhIXHnMisQUKZy1fuVNP1frDbnqSj3G9/hQN9G3NxzkIFgF/w0tNiq6oEsdVNYq2tXjFmlJyHw==",
                "sha1": "83e10a995b749d395ef05130d366cf3118166079"
            }
        }
    ],
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "tlsh": "82a1a59a066a70198bb09be4cb174415f65ff6633781c284fb5ca9885f7302483b2dfc",
            "sha256": "1754d94382da6b07a476f4b59007cd9518ce1fcc05cd4ccdaeee1cb9dd36fec9",
            "path": "_bridge.js"
        },
        {
            "tlsh": "90f0219515eaec628770a3f3ceb30041f5e284255e87419c76c590df0bb4814029dfba",
            "sha256": "4d90fc76e76a20a36ebddd137a0b3c3fd1a103c5d28bc8022839be4e86158442",
            "path": "index.js"
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/devplatform-nx-gle/MAL-2026-12723.json"
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "cweId": "CWE-506"
    }
]