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Malicious MAL-2026-18367

identity-two-factor

npm package · versions 999.0.0

Reported Oct 28, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

identity-two-factor@999.0.0 is a dependency-confusion package aimed at Coinbase (its README and postinstall.js say so, and the beacon path is `cbhq-canary`) with no functional code. Its postinstall script runs `node postinstall.js` on npm install, which writes a marker file to the temp directory and POSTs the hostname, username, working-directory name, CI flag and Node version to `https://webhook.site/e0981a8e-081e-49a0-8b4a-235109e13045/cbhq-canary`. It was published by the npm account hologrammmm0x, which has no other packages.

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Source: amazon-inspector (f9adfaa94d0139573858f537ccd5f8eeb2fd452d18cfac057fd1bc6b38f8773c)
On npm install, postinstall.js collects os.hostname(), os.userInfo().username, the current working directory basename, a CI flag, and the Node version, and POSTs them to a hardcoded webhook.site URL (https://webhook.site/e0981a8e-081e-49a0-8b4a-235109e13045/cbhq-canary). The package is published at version 999.0.0 under a name that resembles an internal/private package, consistent with a dependency-confusion exfiltration payload: builds that resolve this public name over an intended private registry will automatically beacon identifying host and user metadata to a third-party collector endpoint. The in-source self-labeling as a 'security research canary' is author-controlled text and is not accompanied by any installer-visible authorization; the behavior itself is unsolicited data exfiltration from any machine that installs the package.

Indicators of compromise

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URLs

  • hxxps://webhook[.]site/e0981a8e-081e-49a0-8b4a-235109e13045/cbhq-canary other packages →