{"id":"MAL-2026-18074","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.","modified":"2026-10-20T06:15:04.931080681Z","published":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z","database_specific":{"iocs":{"files":[{"paths":["src/motion.js"],"source":"PACKAGE_ARCHIVE","note":"require of private scoped dependency @aaron205whitmore/postcss-animate-utils"}]}},"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/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"animatecss-tailwind-vectrix","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/animatecss-tailwind-vectrix"},"versions":["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"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","credits":[{"name":"pkgwarden","contact":["https://pkgwarden.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}