MAL-2026-18074

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/MAL-2026-18074.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-18074
Published
2026-10-19T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-10-20T06:15:04Z
Summary
Malicious code in animatecss-tailwind-vectrix (npm)
Details

animatecss-tailwind-vectrix (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 @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.

Database specific 
{
    "iocs":  {
        "files":  [
            {
                "note":  "require of private scoped dependency @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils",
                "paths":  [
                    "src/motion.js"
                ],
                "source":  "PACKAGE_ARCHIVE"
            }
        ]
    }
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

npm / animatecss-tailwind-vectrix

Package

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

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.6
2.0.7

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/MAL-2026-18074.json"