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Malicious package

tailwindcss-effectornpm

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tailwindcss-effector is a confirmed malicious npm package (MAL-2026-6472) that opens a backdoor for remote access (malicious version 1.7.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.

Malicious code in tailwindcss-effector (npm)

MAL-2026-6472
Immediate action
Remove the package, then rotate any secrets the build/runtime could reach.
npm uninstall tailwindcss-effector

What this malware does

src/index.js appends a heavily obfuscated async IIFE after a legitimate-looking TailwindCSS plugin. On import, the IIFE issues HTTPS requests to remote JSON-RPC endpoints (TRON-style transaction queries reading .data[0].raw_data.data, and Ethereum-style eth_call reading result.input.substring(2)), XOR-decrypts the returned hex bytes, and executes them: the primary path calls eval(e) on the decoded payload, and a secondary path spawns a detached child process via child_process.spawn(..., {detached:true, stdio:..., windowsHide:true}) whose output is also eval'd in an error handler. All sensitive strings (URLs, RPC method names, host names, module/method names, argv) are hidden behind a custom string-shuffle decoder _$_d407=(function(b,m){...})("<blob>",3168449), indexed as _$_d407[N]. The package name pattern (effector vs. tailwindcss-animated / tailwindcss-animate) plus malicious code grafted onto a working plugin is consistent with typosquat-with-payload. Anyone who installs and imports this package executes attacker-controlled JavaScript decoded from on-chain RPC responses and gains a persistent detached child process — full RCE on the installer's machine, with the C2 channel hidden inside legitimate-looking blockchain RPC traffic.

Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

Malicious versions

1 flagged
1.7.0

Indicators of compromise (SHA-256)

4780f88b1924c1d5104a4ea18803a0180e9339e5c9a9bf787f9ed4901e1729e3
a9b2fb035f29322cf7b8a60bbb94a5c171af51f18b364ad807c7166d7497367e

Detection & response playbook

Backdoor / remote access
  1. Find it

    Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for tailwindcss-effector (version 1.7.0).

  2. If you installed it — respond

    tailwindcss-effector establishes remote access, so treat any host that installed it as fully compromised. Isolate the machine, remove the package, rotate all credentials it could reach, and rebuild from a trusted image rather than cleaning in place — a backdoor may have planted additional persistence.

  3. Did it already run?

    If tailwindcss-effector was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.

Frequently asked questions

No. tailwindcss-effector on npm has been identified as a malicious package (version 1.7.0 flagged). It should be removed immediately — do not install or keep it in your dependency tree.

Campaign

IN-MAL-2026-007530GHSA-5xpc-q26w-px3q

References

Credits

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Detect & block this

O3 blocks tailwindcss-effector-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the C2 callback and severs the channel.

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