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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@badzz88/baileys/v/8.2.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@badzz88/baileys/v/8.2.0.md"
package: "@badzz88/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@badzz88/baileys@8.2.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "8.2.0"
---

# @badzz88/baileys@8.2.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 12 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 8.2.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions.

AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The preinstall script only enforces the declared Node version requirement. The flagged message and media code performs package-aligned WhatsApp media handling, with no confirmed malicious behavior in the inspected paths.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 94.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T03:21:10.168Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T03:21:33.538Z
- **Download time:** 771 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1800 ms
- **AI review time:** 20798 ms
- **Total time:** 23370 ms

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

## Security analysis

### Published attack-surface review

- **Summary:** No attack was identified in the inspected lifecycle or message handling paths.

- **Trigger:** Package installation runs the preinstall hook; media operations run when called by the application.

- **Impact:** The inspected behavior does not establish an attack surface.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T03:21:33.538Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The hook checks the Node version, while the inspected message paths download WhatsApp media and generate video thumbnails.

- **Rationale:** The preinstall script only enforces the declared Node version requirement. The flagged message and media code performs package-aligned WhatsApp media handling, with no confirmed malicious behavior in the inspected paths.

- **Files touched:** package.json, engine-requirements.js, lib/Utils/messages.js, lib/Utils/messages-media.js

- **Network endpoints:** mmg.whatsapp.net

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 94.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The preinstall hook runs a Node version check; the referenced script only rejects Node versions below 20., Message utilities download media and request reuploads as part of message handling., Media downloads use the WhatsApp media host; video thumbnail extraction invokes ffmpeg on the supplied media path.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @badzz88/baileys@8.2.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @badzz88/baileys@8.2.0 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@badzz88/baileys@8.2.0/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node ./engine-requirements.js
```

### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 5. Low: Filesystem
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 70.0%

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 6. Low: High Entropy Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 55.0%

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

### 7. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

### 8. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@badzz88/baileys@8.2.0/WAProto/index.js>)

Package contains source files above the normal full-analysis size ceiling.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = WAProto/index.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 8472622
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 9. Medium: Structural Risk Force Deep Review
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Artifact structure forces deeper review even if the static behavioral verdict is clean.

### 10. Medium: Git Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 85.0%

Package manifest contains a git dependency.

### 11. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@badzz88/baileys@8.2.0/lib/Utils/messages.js>)

Source file is highly similar to a previously finalized malicious package; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = normalized_sha256
matchedPackage = my-auto-follow@1.0.3
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bXktYXV0by1mb2xsb3c:1.0.3
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 12. Low: Suspicious Lifecycle Evidence
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@badzz88/baileys@8.2.0/package.json>)

The preinstall hook runs a Node version check; the referenced script only rejects Node versions below 20.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
",
    "prepack": "",
    "prepare": "",
    "preinstall": "node ./engine-requirements.js",
    "release": "release-it",
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** prepare, preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @badzz88/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 8.2.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-05-12T06:03:05.403Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-10-09T03:19:29.258Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-12T18:56:06.442Z
- **Known versions:** 38
- **Latest version:** 0.0.1-security
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@badzz88/baileys/v/8.2.0>)
