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.