delivery-ci-clinpm
delivery-ci-cli is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13538) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 35.3.5). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in delivery-ci-cli (npm)
What this malware does
On require of delivery-ci-cli, index.js loads bootstrap.js which downloads a platform-specific native binary from string-split-obfuscated Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev), writes it to /var/tmp or %TEMP% under cover-story names such as.cache<hex>, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe, and.analytics_state, chmods 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe with unref(). No hash or signature verification is performed. If HTTPS mirrors fail, _bootstrap.js falls back to a DNS-TXT covert channel: it queries TXT records at c.<domain> and 0.<domain>..N.<domain> under sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, and net.dl.wel1.ru, base64-decodes the concatenated response into a buffer, writes it to disk, and executes it. Hostnames and API names are assembled at runtime via array.join to evade static string matching. The package README presents it as a benign 'CI CLI SDK' with empty dependencies, which serves as cover for the dropper behavior.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Malicious packageFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for delivery-ci-cli (version 35.3.5). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging delivery-ci-cli across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove delivery-ci-cli 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 delivery-ci-cli was ever installed, its post-install/runtime payload may have already executed. O3's L7 egress monitoring and runtime eBPF sensors detect the credential exfiltration or command-and-control callback after install and block the malicious outbound channel, so you catch and contain the actual compromise — not just the presence of the package.
How O3 protects you
O3 blocks delivery-ci-cli before install through its supply-chain scanner, and if it has already run, detects and severs the exfiltration or C2 callback at runtime through L7 egress monitoring and eBPF.
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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks delivery-ci-cli-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.