ded-pwa-ded-pwa-corenpm
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ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13498) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 35.6.3). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core (npm)
What this malware does
On require('ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core'), index.js unconditionally loads adapter.js, which selects a platform-specific target path (%TEMP%/dotnet_diag<hex>.exe on Windows, /tmp/.cache_<hex> on POSIX), fetches an opaque binary over HTTPS from author-controlled Cloudflare Workers endpoints, writes it to disk, chmods 0755, and detached-spawns it via cp.spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', fp+' &'], {detached:true}) or cmd. The destination hostnames are reconstructed at runtime from split-string arrays (e.g. ['oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.','dev'].join('') and ['sdk.','dl','.wel1','.r','u'].join('') yielding sdk.dl.wel1.ru) to evade static grepping, and identifier lookups such as require('child_'+'process') and fs['chmod'+'Sync'] are similarly split. A DNS-TXT chunked-base64 fallback via *.dl.wel1.ru is present. Staged filenames masquerade as.NET diagnostics tooling or hidden cache files, and DO_NOT_TRACK / ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT env checks provide a telemetry cover story despite the executed content being an opaque author-controlled binary with no version pinning and no hash verification. Installing or requiring the package results in arbitrary code execution on the installer's host.
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Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core (version 35.6.3).
If you installed it — respond
Remove ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core from your project and lockfile, then assume any secrets accessible to the build or runtime were exposed: rotate API keys, tokens, and credentials, and audit for unexpected outbound activity or persistence.
Did it already run?
If ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core 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.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks ded-pwa-ded-pwa-core-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.