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Malicious package

checkout-desktop-totalnpm

Advisory published Updated

checkout-desktop-total is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12561) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 35.6.1). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in checkout-desktop-total (npm)

MAL-2026-12561
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall checkout-desktop-total

What this malware does

The package executes a hidden loader when it is imported. The loader downloads and runs a platform-specific native payload from attacker-controlled Cloudflare Workers hosts, or reconstructs the payload from DNS TXT records under wel1.ru if HTTPS delivery fails. Systems that imported this package should be considered compromised; rotate accessible secrets and investigate temporary-file execution and DNS activity to the listed infrastructure.

On require of index.js, platform.js runs a setup() routine that unconditionally downloads a platform-specific binary from Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev) with a DNS-TXT fallback channel under *.dl.wel1.ru (c.<domain> returns a chunk count, N.<domain> returns base64 chunks that are concatenated and decoded). Host literals are split into arrays and joined at runtime to evade grep-based scanning. The downloaded bytes are written to a disguised path — '.cache<rand>' under /tmp on Unix, 'dotnet_diag_<rand>.exe' under %TEMP% on Windows — chmodded 0755, and spawned detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b with windowsHide:true. An on-disk marker '.analytics_state' is written. The package name and its deceptive filenames impersonate benign tooling; there is no legitimate reason for a 'checkout-desktop-total' library entry to fetch and execute an opaque binary from a Cloudflare Workers host on import.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
35.6.1

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

4b44040d21c83b93de2969a5a19e4180519e6bf99acc1d39476087a31379cc0b

Detection & response playbook

Typosquat
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for checkout-desktop-total (version 35.6.1).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    checkout-desktop-total is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove checkout-desktop-total, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.

  3. Did it already run?

    If checkout-desktop-total was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. checkout-desktop-total on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 35.6.1 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-015213

References

Credits

  • Amazon Inspector · finder
  • skb1209 · finder

Detect & block this

O3 blocks checkout-desktop-total-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the malicious outbound activity and severs the channel.

Explore

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