LWA-2026-7436 MAL-2026-12044 ↗ confirmed malware

specials-mvno-client@20.9.8

Malicious code in specials-mvno-client (npm)

T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply ChainT1059.007 · JavaScriptT1105 · Ingress Tool TransferT1071.001 · Web ProtocolsT1573 · Encrypted ChannelT1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 ChannelT1082 · System Information DiscoveryT1204.002 · Malicious File

Analysis

specials-mvno-client@20.9.8 is a trojanized npm package that downloads and executes a second-stage binary on install. When required, _bootstrap.js fingerprints the host platform (OS, arch), then fetches a binary from Cloudflare Workers C2 endpoints (oob-worker[.]cf99-9b3[.]workers[.]dev, oob-worker[.]cf101-adf[.]workers[.]dev, oob-worker[.]cf102-baf[.]workers[.]dev, oob-worker[.]cf100-416[.]workers[.]dev) via HTTPS GET to paths /pkg/package, /pkg/package-arm64, /pkg/loader_mac, or /pkg/package.exe depending on platform. If the HTTP fetch fails, it falls back to DNS TXT-based payload retrieval from tin[.]dl[.]well1[.]site (with platform-specific subdomains). The downloaded binary is written to /var/tmp/.cache_<hex> on Linux/macOS or %TEMP%\dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows, made executable, and spawned as a detached background process (spawn with detached:true, unref'd, stdio ignored). The package contains no repository, no README, and the 81KB lib/telemetry.js file is a decoy analytics SDK — the real payload is in _bootstrap.js (5KB).

analyzed by
Leitwacht
first seen
Aug 2, 2026, 03:16 PM
analyzed
Aug 2, 2026, 03:17 PM

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