Malicious code in devplatform-spa-plugin-auth (npm)

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Source: amazon-inspector (697c6ca9c6aa1474e725b8f1c7d64c0b1809131ce1c8a856253db8d480791ff0)

The package's main entry loads helpers.js which auto-invokes a start() routine on require. That routine selects a platform-specific asset path, retrieves an opaque native binary over HTTPS from one of four Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev), with a DNS-TXT base64-chunk fallback via sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to /var/tmp/.cache on Unix or %TEMP%/dotnet_diag_.exe on Windows, chmod 0755'd, and spawned detached via /bin/sh or cmd.exe. Hostnames and sensitive API references are assembled at runtime from string arrays (['oob-worker.cf100','-416.workers.de','v'].join(''); require('child_'+'process')), a '.analytics_state' marker file suppresses repeat runs, and stderr is silenced through a no-op writer. The package is advertised as an SPA auth-token plugin and has no legitimate reason to fetch and execute a native binary at load time. The delivered code is attacker-controlled and unverified, granting full-host code execution to whoever operates the Workers/DNS infrastructure on any machine that requires this module.