@coralxyz/anchornpm
@coralxyz/anchor is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-13629) that typosquats a legitimate package to trick installs (malicious version 0.30.2). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in @coralxyz/anchor (npm)
What this malware does
Package @coralxyz/anchor impersonates the legitimate Solana Anchor framework package @coral-xyz/anchor (hyphen removed). The npm postinstall hook, implemented in scripts/postinstall.js, hides all string literals behind a hex-escaped string-array decoder (_0x5a2f / _0xf). On Windows (win32), the decoded logic downloads a zip archive from the anonymous file host https://files.catbox.moe/9bppy2.zip, extracts it via PowerShell Expand-Archive to a temporary directory, walks the extracted tree, and spawns any.exe file it finds detached with windowsHide. index.js is a minimal stub; the package's advertised Anchor framework functionality is not present, and the postinstall dropper is the sole meaningful behavior. The delivery vector is name confusion with the widely used @coral-xyz/anchor package.
Malicious versions
Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)
Detection & response playbook
TyposquatFind it
Scan your lockfiles (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, yarn.lock, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, etc.) and build artifacts for @coralxyz/anchor (version 0.30.2). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging @coralxyz/anchor across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
@coralxyz/anchor is a typosquat — you almost certainly intended a legitimately-named package. Remove @coralxyz/anchor, install the correct package, and rotate any secrets exposed during the install since post-install scripts may have already run.
Did it already run?
If @coralxyz/anchor 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 @coralxyz/anchor 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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Credits
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks @coralxyz/anchor-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.