---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@badzz88/baileys/v/8.3.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@badzz88/baileys/v/8.3.0.md"
package: "@badzz88/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@badzz88/baileys@8.3.0 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "8.3.0"
---

# @badzz88/baileys@8.3.0 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:** 8.3.0
- **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.

Inspected source shows a Node version gate at install time and ordinary media retry logic in the required utility file. The scanner's similarity and network hints did not establish malicious behavior in the reviewed source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 84.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-09T03:21:08.388Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-09T03:21:28.123Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1804 ms
- **AI review time:** 17418 ms
- **Total time:** 19735 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 surface was identified in the inspected install hook or required utility source.

- **Trigger:** Installation runs the package's preinstall script; media download behavior is invoked by callers.

- **Impact:** These behaviors do not establish malicious mutation, credential exposure, or unrelated network activity.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-09T03:21:28.123Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The preinstall script checks the Node major version and exits for versions below 20. The inspected download code retries after selected service errors.

- **Rationale:** Inspected source shows a Node version gate at install time and ordinary media retry logic in the required utility file. The scanner's similarity and network hints did not establish malicious behavior in the reviewed source.

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 84.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The preinstall hook only runs the Node version check in engine-requirements.js; prepare and prepack are empty., The inspected media-download code retries a failed download after a specific service response and contains no credential or unrelated data transmission., The preinstall version check exits on Node versions below 20.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @badzz88/baileys@8.3.0.

- Review the evidence and your use of @badzz88/baileys@8.3.0 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@8.3.0/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@8.3.0/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@8.3.0/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:** 84.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@badzz88/baileys@8.3.0/package.json>)

The preinstall hook only runs the Node version check in engine-requirements.js; prepare and prepack are empty.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
"prepack": "",
    "prepare": "",
    "preinstall": "node ./engine-requirements.js",
    "release": "release-it",
    "test": "jest"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@adiwajshing/
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @badzz88/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 8.3.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-05-29T02:07:43.409Z
- **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/8.3.0>)
