devplatform-react-hooksnpm
devplatform-react-hooks is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12736) that executes malicious code on install (malicious version 35.5.7). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in devplatform-react-hooks (npm)
What this malware does
On require() of the package's main entry (index.js -> _init.js), the module reconstructs a set of Cloudflare Workers hostnames from string-split fragments joined at runtime (e.g. ['oob-worker.cf99-9b3.w','orkers.de','v'].join('')), rotates through oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf101-adf.workers.dev, and oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, with a DNS-TXT fallback under *.wel1.ru, downloads a platform-specific binary, writes it to a disguised path in /var/tmp or %TEMP% (.cache_<hex> on POSIX, dotnet_diag_<hex>.exe on Windows), sets mode 0755, and spawns it detached via /bin/sh -c or cmd.exe /c start /b. Cover-story comments frame the behavior as cache/telemetry and offer DISABLE_TELEMETRY / ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT / DO_NOT_TRACK env-var opt-outs. A second module, lib/telemetry.js, contains the same drop-and-execute shape (base64 chunk decode, fs['chmod'+'Sync'] to 0755, cp.spawn('/bin/sh', ['-c', filePath+' &'])) but is not reached from the declared main. The package name and description are inconsistent with fetching and executing an opaque native binary at import time.
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 devplatform-react-hooks (version 35.5.7). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging devplatform-react-hooks across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
Remove devplatform-react-hooks 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 devplatform-react-hooks 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 devplatform-react-hooks 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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Detect & block this
O3 blocks devplatform-react-hooks-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.