MAL-2026-18069

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-graphic/MAL-2026-18069.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-18069
Published
2026-10-19T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-29T14:45:06Z
Summary
Malicious code in animatecss-tailwind-graphic (npm)
Details

animatecss-tailwind-graphic (2.0.6) is a Tailwind CSS plugin from the fake job interview campaign behind MAL-2026-17665 and MAL-2026-17666: the same Animate.css integration template, README and description, published by jamesvectorpack on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils, which is not readable on the public registry and resolves only with the npm token committed in the lure repository's web/.npmrc, so the code it delivers runs when tailwind.config.js loads the plugin and the dev server starts. The published tarball contains no install scripts and no network code; the payload lives in the private dependency, which was not retrieved. Twenty-six such packages under seventeen accounts were published between 2026-07-28 and 2026-10-09.

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Source: amazon-inspector (2b7460874581f581556add924c4d018b83a2ceb2d13a43033ceceb80741078b1)

The package's shipped contents show no install-time or import-time behavior that would harm the installer. No lifecycle scripts fetching or executing remote content were observed, no reads of installer credential paths (~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc, browser stores), no environment-variable scraping, no hardcoded attacker-controlled network destinations, no obfuscated payloads, and no persistence or backdoor mechanisms. The package appears to be a benign Tailwind/Animate.css-related utility with no supply-chain attack surface identified in this version.

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "files": [
            {
                "note": "require of private scoped dependency @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils",
                "paths": [
                    "src/motion.js"
                ],
                "source": "PACKAGE_ARCHIVE"
            }
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-022379",
            "import_time": "2026-10-29T14:37:06.436137156Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-29T14:25:15Z",
            "sha256": "2b7460874581f581556add924c4d018b83a2ceb2d13a43033ceceb80741078b1",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "2.0.6"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / animatecss-tailwind-graphic

Package

Name
animatecss-tailwind-graphic
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Purl
pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-graphic

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.6

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "animatecss-tailwind-graphic-2.0.6.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "81ad9e018c81c65f0755293f418534cb604807b4",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-fIrIQLYC/Xxz2rr9Qpsa87v/pqHC4Pd6ByGulmwUfpvMV2tGrmpbY1xsGFTlbRMHKCQMO/qgzbTj//V7+/1s3w=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-graphic/MAL-2026-18069.json"