devplatform-vite-plugin-externalnpm
devplatform-vite-plugin-external is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13272) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 35.3.6). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in devplatform-vite-plugin-external (npm)
What this malware does
The package's main entry (index.js) unconditionally requires./setup on load. setup.js selects an OS/arch-specific endpoint and downloads a binary from a rotating list of Cloudflare Workers hosts (oob-worker.cf99-9b3.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf100-416.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf102-baf.workers.dev, oob-worker.cf103-070.workers.dev) whose hostnames are assembled via array-join string splitting to evade static analysis, with a DNS-TXT chunked fallback across sdk.dl.wel1.ru / ext.dl.wel1.ru / pkg.dl.wel1.ru / net.dl.wel1.ru. The fetched bytes are written to a temp path under a disguised name ('dotnet_diag_<tag>.exe' on Windows or '.cache_<tag>' on POSIX), chmod 0755, and spawned detached via cmd.exe /c start /b or /bin/sh -c "fp &". There is no hash or signature verification of the downloaded payload; the source hosts are attacker-controlled infrastructure unrelated to the package's stated Vite-plugin purpose. Execution is suppressed by DISABLE_TELEMETRY / ANALYTICS_OPT_OUT / DO_NOT_TRACK environment variables and cached via a marker file with a ~21329s TTL, framing the behavior as telemetry while dropping and running an opaque binary. Any consumer that requires or imports this package triggers full-host code execution under attacker control.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for devplatform-vite-plugin-external (version 35.3.6). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging devplatform-vite-plugin-external across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
devplatform-vite-plugin-external is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If devplatform-vite-plugin-external 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-vite-plugin-external 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-vite-plugin-external-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.