---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/animated-css-kit"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/animated-css-kit/report.md"
package: "animated-css-kit"
report_status: "published"
title: "animated-css-kit@1.0.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.1"
---

# animated-css-kit@1.0.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked by malware advisory** — OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10432 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Trusted malware advisory block
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OpenSSF/OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV malware advisory MAL-2026-10432 identifies this version as malicious and supplies the Firewall block.

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-10432 confirms this npm version as malicious. The package presents itself as a PostCSS plugin for animate.css, but its main export (src/plugin.js \`createPlugin\`) synchronously triggers src/side-effects.js, which is heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io string-array with RC4 decoding, anti-debug via Function.prototype.toString inspection, console-method hijacking) while the rest of the src/\*.js tree is plain unobfuscated PostCSS code...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-13T11:00:33.168Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-13T11:00:33.168Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

The recorded confidence comes from the underlying analysis. Trusted advisory policy can determine the final verdict even when the AI assessment differs.

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to animated-css-kit@1.0.1.

- Avoid installing animated-css-kit@1.0.1. Remove it from direct dependencies and check your lockfile for transitive copies.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.
- If this version ran, investigate the affected machine and build environment. Rotate credentials it could access and rebuild from a trusted environment.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

The package presents itself as a PostCSS plugin for animate.css, but its main export (src/plugin.js \`createPlugin\`) synchronously triggers src/side-effects.js, which is heavily obfuscated (obfuscator.io string-array with RC4 decoding, anti-debug via Function.prototype.toString inspection, console-method hijacking) while the rest of the src/\*.js tree is plain unobfuscated PostCSS code. The obfuscated module fetches a remote JSON payload, base64-decodes its \`message\` field, and executes it via \`new Function('require', m)(require)\`, handing the caller's \`require\` to attacker-supplied code with retry-up-to-10-times logic. This fires when a consumer imports the package and instantiates the exported plugin (the documented usage in a build pipeline), giving the attacker arbitrary code execution on the installer/build machine with full access to the surrounding Node.js environment. The clean plugin surface + targeted obfuscation of only the network-and-eval module + evocative name mimicking the animate.css ecosystem are consistent with a supply-chain attack using a cover-story package.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** animated-css-kit
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.1
- **Version published:** 2026-07-08T15:12:20.444Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-13T11:00:33.168Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-24T07:55:00.088Z
- **Known versions:** 2
- **Latest version:** 1.0.3
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/animated-css-kit>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10432>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/animated-css-kit/v/1.0.1>)