🛡️ MAL-2026-12289 — twork-data-services-counterfree

Malicious code in twork-data-services-counterfree (npm)

Source: amazon-inspector

index.js unconditionally requires./_init on load. _init.js selects a platform-specific binary path, fetches an opaque payload over HTTPS from attacker-controlled Cloudflare Workers hosts whose hostnames are assembled at runtime by joining short string fragments (e.g. 'oob-worker.cf102' + '-baf.work' + 'ers.' + 'dev' → oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev; sibling hosts oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev). If HTTPS mirrors are unreachable, the loader falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel: it resolves TXT on c.<domain> under *.dl.well1.site (tin.dl.well1.site, tina.dl.well1.site, ldr.dl.well1.site, win.dl.well1.site) to obtain a chunk count, resolves numbered subdomains to collect base64 chunks, and reassembles the payload. The bytes are written to /tmp or %TEMP% under deceptive names masquerading as system tooling (dotnet_diag_<rnd>.exe on Windows,.cache_<rnd> /.analytics_state on POSIX), chmod 0o755 is applied on POSIX, and the binary is spawned detached via cp.spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', fp+' &'], {detached:true}).unref() or the Windows cmd equivalent. Fires on require() of the package, so any consumer that installs and loads twork-data-services-counterfree executes attacker-controlled code with the installer's privileges.