MAL-2026-16097 Malicious code in twilio-hackerone-poc-b8f21a (npm)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-16097 is a malicious package: twilio-hackerone-poc-b8f21a (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16097/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-16097/index.md)
- Package
- twilio-hackerone-poc-b8f21a
- Registry
- npm
What is MAL-2026-16097?
MAL-2026-16097 is a malicious package in twilio-hackerone-poc-b8f21a, published on 9 Sep 2026.
Official description
On
npm install, postinstall.js automatically executes and performs host reconnaissance and exfiltration to a hardcoded ephemeral Cloudflare Quick Tunnel at https://encryption-watch-tubes-finger.trycloudflare.com/poc-v101-escape. The script runs id, whoami, and uname; enumerates /, $HOME, and /tmp; reads /proc/self/cgroup and /proc/mounts; probes the AWS instance-metadata service at 169.254.169.254 and the ECS task-metadata agent at 127.0.0.1:51678 and reports reachability; enumerates other AC[0-9a-f]{32} Twilio account SID directories present in /tmp (excluding one hardcoded SID) to enumerate co-tenants on shared build workers; and collects Object.keys(process.env). All of the above is POSTed as JSON to the trycloudflare.com tunnel. The tunnel host is anonymous, ephemeral, and unrelated to any legitimate publisher; the package name and self-labeling as a 'HackerOne PoC' do not change the observed installer-side data-exfiltration behavior.What should I do about MAL-2026-16097?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.