devplatform-spa-plugin-querynpm
devplatform-spa-plugin-query is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-12774) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 35.8.5). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in devplatform-spa-plugin-query (npm)
What this malware does
On require() of the package, index.js loads bootstrap.js, which assembles a C2 hostname by string-splitting fragments (oob-worker.cf*.workers.dev), selects a platform-specific payload path (/pkg/package, /pkg/package.exe, /pkg/loader_mac, /pkg/package-arm64), fetches opaque bytes over HTTPS, writes them to a temp path with cover-story names (e.g. dotnet_diag.exe,.cache_), chmods 0755 on Unix or launches via cmd /c start on Windows, and spawns the payload detached via /bin/sh -c. A DNS-TXT chunked-transfer channel (dnsChunked reading c.<domain> and i.<domain> TXT records over sdk.dl.wel1.ru, ext.dl.wel1.ru, pkg.dl.wel1.ru, net.dl.wel1.ru) is provided as a covert fallback when HTTPS is blocked. No hash or signature verification is performed on the fetched binary.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
Backdoor / remote accessFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for devplatform-spa-plugin-query (version 35.8.5). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging devplatform-spa-plugin-query across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
devplatform-spa-plugin-query establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.
Did it already run?
If devplatform-spa-plugin-query 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-spa-plugin-query 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-spa-plugin-query-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.