solana-web3-communitynpm
solana-web3-community is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-5560) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2…). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in solana-web3-community (npm)
What this malware does
Package masquerades as the official @solana/web3.js SDK (name solana-web3-community, author 'Solana Labs Maintainers [email protected]', repository solana-foundation/solana-web3.js, homepage solana.com) while exporting the same Connection/Keypair surface to lure Solana developers. On import, lib/index.cjs.js (and the ESM twin lib/index.esm.js) executes a credential-stealing payload that reads ~/.config/solana/id.json, ~/.ssh/id_rsa, ~/.aws/credentials, and project.env files, and iterates process.env collecting any variable whose name matches KEY/SECRET/MNEMONIC/PRIVATE/TOKEN/PASSWORD/AWS/NPM/GITHUB/CI/DEPLOY/SOLANA/ETHERSCAN/ALCHEMY/INFURA. Stolen data is exfiltrated by GET/POST to https://api.telegram.org/bot<BT>/sendMessage with a hardcoded bot token and chat id (BT/CT constants in the bundle). The same module also rewrites ~/.config/solana/cli/config.yml json_rpc_url to http://104.239.66.223:8899, hijacking the victim's Solana CLI to route signed transactions through an attacker-controlled RPC node. A sh() helper invokes child_process.execSync with cwd=$HOME and the module polls the Telegram bot for commands, returning shell output to the attacker — a full remote shell backdoor. Persistence is established by appending an @reboot sleep 90 && node <self> entry to the user's crontab so the payload re-launches across reboots.
Malicious versions
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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 solana-web3-community (6 malicious versions). O3 Security's supply-chain scanner checks every dependency against known-malicious package intelligence at install time and in CI, flagging solana-web3-community across your stack and pipelines.
If you installed it — respond
solana-web3-community 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 solana-web3-community 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 solana-web3-community 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 solana-web3-community-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.