{"id":"MAL-2026-18074","revision":"d9a60fea26a54770ae0a7733687d8934","records":[{"revision":"d9a60fea26a54770ae0a7733687d8934","observedAt":"2026-10-29T15:12:22.973+00:00","statement":{"source":"osv","id":"MAL-2026-18074","aliases":[],"title":"Malicious code in animatecss-tailwind-vectrix (npm)","description":"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.\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (4656472aa6539d0b9bb022dca8ca565fac77cb2d55b73beb2d95c5a500fe1919)\nThe package contains no traced code paths or content patterns indicating exfiltration, install-time or import-time remote code execution, silent relay of caller data, credential distribution, backdoor access, or self-propagation. No lifecycle scripts fetching or executing remote content, no reads of installer secret paths (~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc, browser stores), no hardcoded attacker-controlled network destinations, and no obfuscated payloads were observed in the shipped files.\n","state":0,"publishedAt":"2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00","modifiedAt":"2026-10-29T14:30:39.6504247+00:00","affected":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"animatecss-tailwind-vectrix","ranges":[],"versions":["2.0.6","2.0.7"],"rawVersionEvidence":null}],"metrics":[],"references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17665","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17666","https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17667","https://pkgwarden.com/incidents/fake-interview-tailwind-plugins-npm-october-2026/","https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/v/2.0.7","https://www.npmjs.com/package/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix/v/2.0.6"],"sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18074","license":"OSV · upstream source license applies","key":"osv:MAL-2026-18074","identifiers":["MAL-2026-18074"]},"retained":false,"historicalAffected":[]}],"coverage":[]}