---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-3d-animate/v/1.2.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-3d-animate/v/1.2.1.md"
package: "tailwindcss-3d-animate"
report_status: "published"
title: "tailwindcss-3d-animate@1.2.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.2.1"
---

# tailwindcss-3d-animate@1.2.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Arbitrary code can run in the developer or build environment.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Remote Code Execution
- **Selected version:** 1.2.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Importing the package executes an obfuscated payload in its main entry. The payload obtains code through a transaction-derived remote location and executes it.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-27T20:10:32.270Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-27T20:12:12.973Z
- **Download time:** 506 ms
- **Static scan time:** 237 ms
- **AI review time:** 99958 ms
- **Total time:** 100703 ms

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** Importing the package executes an obfuscated payload in its main entry. The payload obtains code through a transaction-derived remote location and executes it.

- **Trigger:** Loading the package through a Tailwind configuration or any require/import of index.js.

- **Impact:** Arbitrary code can run in the developer or build environment.

- **Evidence paths:** index.js, package.json

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-08-27T20:12:12.973Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** Obfuscated remote payload retrieval followed by eval or detached Node execution.

- **Attack narrative:** The declared main file first defines the expected Tailwind plugin, then appends a large Base64-encoded program. Static decoding shows that importing the package immediately queries Ethereum RPC services, uses transaction data to derive an additional remote location, retrieves an encoded response, and executes the result with eval or a detached Node process. This behavior is unrelated to CSS utilities and creates a remote code execution path during normal package use.

- **Rationale:** The package contains a concealed import-time remote code execution payload unrelated to its advertised Tailwind functionality. No lifecycle hook is needed because normal loading of the main entry activates it.

- **Files touched:** index.js, package.json

- **Network endpoints:** https://eth.drpc.org, https://1rpc.io/eth, https://eth-mainnet.public.blastapi.io, https://ethereum.publicnode.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for:** The main entry appends a 41 KB Base64 payload after the normal Tailwind plugin export., Static decoding shows that the payload runs on import, retrieves remote content, and evaluates it or starts a detached Node process., The payload queries Ethereum RPC services and derives further remote destinations from transaction data.

- **Evidence against:** The manifest has no lifecycle scripts., The visible plugin code implements Tailwind CSS utilities, but it is followed by the unrelated payload.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Ai Review Evidence
- **Category:** Ai Review
- **Confidence:** 99.0%
- **Path:** index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/tailwindcss-3d-animate@1.2.1/index.js>)

The main entry appends a 41 KB Base64 payload after the normal Tailwind plugin export.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
module.exports=tailwindCss3d;[redacted]
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 2
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 1
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 3

### Published dependency entries
- @swc/helpers 0.5.17 (Dependency)
- lodash 4.17.21 (Dependency)
- tailwindcss \>=3.2.0 \<4.0.0 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** tailwindcss-3d-animate
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.2.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-27T08:04:00.652Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-27T14:46:57.325Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-27T20:12:12.973Z
- **Known versions:** 4
- **Latest version:** 1.2.2
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Add 3D transforms to your TailwindCSS project
- **Keywords:** TailwindCSS
- **Artifact files:** 49
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 157,170 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/tailwindcss-3d-animate/v/1.2.1>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/sambauers/tailwindcss-3d>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/sambauers/tailwindcss-3d/issues>)