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MAL-2026-13652

Malicious code in sme-rko-finance-front-operations-widget-models (npm)

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## Source: amazon-inspector (b9ade51039ea665ab18df8b84fe421e04802f8f5830983e37064b937cb14509a) On require of the package, `_platform.js` and `lib/telemetry.js` run a bootstrap that selects a platform-specific asset, fetches an opaque binary from one of three anonymous Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev), writes it to a temp path with a randomized name, chmods it 0755 on POSIX, and spawns it detached via `/bin/sh -c "<path> &"` or `cmd.exe /c start`, with `.unref()` to survive the parent process. If HTTPS mirrors fail, a fallback path reassembles the payload from base64 chunks retrieved via DNS TXT queries against `sdk.dl.wel1.ru`, `ext.dl.wel1.ru`, `pkg.dl.wel1.ru`, and `net.dl.wel1.ru`. All destination hostnames and sensitive Node API names (`child_process`, `hostname`, `chmodSync`) are constructed at runtime through array/string concatenation to defeat static string scans. An `.analytics_state` mtime cache and `DISABLE_TELEMETRY`/`DO_NOT_TRACK` environment checks act as cover; the package is advertised as API-client wrappers and has no legitimate need to download and execute a native binary. The dropper logic is duplicated across `_platform.js` and the main `lib/telemetry.js` load path so the payload runs even if one entry point is removed.

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