MAL-2026-13305

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## Source: amazon-inspector (036c11daa7712014748d57bc2bca8a37672acffa8f3eaca83161b726ba473fdb) On require of the package, _helpers.js reassembles hostnames from split string arrays (e.g. 'oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev', 'oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev', 'oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev') and downloads a platform-specific native binary over HTTPS, with a DNS-TXT covert-channel fallback under *.dl.wel1.ru that base64-decodes concatenated TXT record chunks into the payload bytes. The downloaded binary is written to a temp path under a disguised name (dotnet_diag_<uid>.exe on Windows,.cache_<uid> on Unix), chmodded 0755, and spawned detached via spawn('/bin/sh','-c', filePath + ' &') or spawn('cmd',...). No hash or signature verification is performed and the delivery hosts are author-mutable. A second module, lib/telemetry.js, is bundled as a purported 'analytics' component and contains the same download-chmod-spawn shape (HTTPS transport, DNS service discovery, chmod 755 via string-concatenated 'chmod'+'Sync', spawn /bin/sh -c '<file> &'); it is not referenced from index.js in this version but ships in the tarball. Hostname string-splitting and the DNS-TXT fallback channel indicate deliberate evasion of static scanners and network filters. The package name and version metadata do not correspond to a documented native component that would justify runtime binary delivery.