{"schema_version":"1.9.2","id":"MAL-2026-18068","published":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-29T14:45:05.174188746Z","summary":"Malicious code in animatecss-tailwind-binary (npm)","details":"animatecss-tailwind-binary (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 @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.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (aec43915bcfe9f02417653a042714a54972c50649848689b03c86ca6dd904dce)\nAnalysis of animatecss-tailwind-binary@2.0.6 surfaced no lifecycle scripts, network activity, credential access, obfuscated payloads, or other patterns indicating installer-side harm. No exfiltration, remote fetch-and-execute, silent-relay, backdoor, or self-propagation mechanism is present in the shipped files.\n","affected":[{"package":{"name":"animatecss-tailwind-binary","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-binary"},"versions":["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-binary-2.0.6.tgz","hashes":{"sha1":"2d5a12d2e6ba0f452c877869defb1be409c7257f","sha512_sri":"sha512-X6wsD6eOCHOrpKVBvFOeK+ZEuEubDoemVYhOgGYbqXjY5a/8jXDILFcOxwPJSI/i5wgQYJ9b4W/fy8HjKHOp6w=="}}]},"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/animatecss-tailwind-binary/MAL-2026-18068.json"}}],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17665"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17666"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17667"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://pkgwarden.com/incidents/fake-interview-tailwind-plugins-npm-october-2026/"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-binary/v/2.0.6"}],"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-2026-022377","import_time":"2026-10-29T14:37:06.354354991Z","modified_time":"2026-10-29T14:24:56Z","sha256":"aec43915bcfe9f02417653a042714a54972c50649848689b03c86ca6dd904dce","source":"amazon-inspector","versions":["2.0.6"]}]},"credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["inspector-research@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"pkgwarden","contact":["https://pkgwarden.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}