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Malicious MAL-2026-18077

tailwind-animaflow-kit

npm package · versions 2.0.6

Reported Oct 19, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

tailwind-animaflow-kit (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 killerdev1127 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.

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Source: amazon-inspector (a577b7a729df2e0e53b7a0b6e626e039ca52c10eacaa7f78dea5d4e652d29b7a)
Analysis of tailwind-animaflow-kit@2.0.6 surfaced no lifecycle scripts, no install- or import-time network activity, no reads of installer secrets or credential paths, no dropper or fetch-and-execute pattern, and no silent-relay or backdoor mechanism. No exposed third-party credentials or author tokens were observed in the shipped files.