{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including @coralxyz/anchor.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-13629 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-13629 is a malicious package in @coralxyz/anchor, published on 8 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-13629 is a malicious package: @coralxyz/anchor (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13629/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13629/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-13629","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13629/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-13629","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"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.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in @coralxyz/anchor (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-13629","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"@coralxyz/anchor","purl":"pkg:npm/%40coralxyz/anchor","source":"MAL-2026-13629"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-08","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-13629/"}