MAL-2026-18071

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-luminary/MAL-2026-18071.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-18071
Published
2026-10-19T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-29T14:45:05Z
Summary
Malicious code in animatecss-tailwind-luminary (npm)
Details

animatecss-tailwind-luminary (2.0.6, 2.0.7) 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 cypherbyte on 2026-09-28. src/motion.js:5 requires the private scoped package @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers, 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 (b633de6a567f293f1d23dc01798120e8f5c741405eeca454657fe89028285134)

The package contents show no install-time or import-time behavior that would harm an installer. No lifecycle scripts fetch or execute remote code, no credential paths (~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc, browser profiles) are read, no environment scraping is present, and no outbound network calls to attacker-controlled destinations are observed. No obfuscated code, no hardcoded C2 endpoints, and no dropper/backdoor patterns are present in the shipped files.

Database specific 
{
    "iocs": {
        "files": [
            {
                "note": "require of private scoped dependency @jasperquinn/postcss-motion-helpers",
                "paths": [
                    "src/motion.js"
                ],
                "source": "PACKAGE_ARCHIVE"
            }
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-022392",
            "import_time": "2026-10-29T14:37:06.916400668Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-29T14:26:53Z",
            "sha256": "368a4fa6af7a8a4d197b8fa44258646b39da43756d53dcec6d3507902b2d4fcd",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "2.0.6"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-022388",
            "import_time": "2026-10-29T14:37:06.774423776Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-10-29T14:26:22Z",
            "sha256": "b633de6a567f293f1d23dc01798120e8f5c741405eeca454657fe89028285134",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "2.0.7"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / animatecss-tailwind-luminary

Package

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

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.6
2.0.7

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
    },
    {
        "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-luminary-2.0.6.tgz",
            "hashes": {
                "sha1": "8feae951ad641aa523c32ca03d3002c44e3633ed",
                "sha512_sri": "sha512-t+gOqvHeiaa7E7EfQAr6mxIeWtgyGGZWej1cUqjiu50x3sPBUYn4A1PsCyEK0DrI8aVuXX0k9BEkDzr6mbn4pg=="
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-luminary/MAL-2026-18071.json"