{"schema_version":"1.9.2","id":"MAL-2026-18071","published":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","modified":"2026-10-29T14:45:05.172770984Z","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.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (b633de6a567f293f1d23dc01798120e8f5c741405eeca454657fe89028285134)\nThe 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.\n","affected":[{"package":{"name":"animatecss-tailwind-luminary","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-luminary"},"versions":["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"}}],"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-luminary/v/2.0.6"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-luminary/v/2.0.7"}],"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"]}]},"credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["inspector-research@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"},{"name":"pkgwarden","contact":["https://pkgwarden.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}