MAL-2026-3776 Malicious code in typography-stylecss (npm)

Malicious package Published
Package
typography-stylecss
Registry
npm

What is MAL-2026-3776?

MAL-2026-3776 is a malicious package in typography-stylecss, published on 14 May 2026.

Official description

The package impersonates the legitimate @tailwindcss/typography plugin: README, src/index.js, src/utils.js, and src/styles.js are copied verbatim from the Tailwind Labs plugin, and peerDependencies lists tailwindcss to reinforce the masquerade, but the package is published under the unrelated name typography-stylecss. Appended to src/index.js after the legitimate module.exports = plugin.withOptions(...) is an obfuscator.io-style payload (hex-named identifiers _0x168f6b, _0x3fc27f, etc., with a rotated string table _0x5975). Decoded string-table fragments include platform branching ('win32', 'windows', 'agent-linux-') and a URL path template /agents/<deploymentHash> built against a base URL read from a __SSTAR_API_BASE global, consistent with downloading a platform-specific agent binary and executing it. Because this code sits at module top level, it fires on require('typography-stylecss') / import 'typography-stylecss' — exactly the usage the cloned README instructs developers to add to their tailwind.config.js. Any build or dev server that loads the Tailwind config will trigger the dropper, which fetches and runs an attacker-controlled native binary on the installer's machine.

What should I do about MAL-2026-3776?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

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