---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bottino/baileys/v/1.0.6"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bottino/baileys/v/1.0.6.md"
package: "@bottino/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@bottino/baileys@1.0.6 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "1.0.6"
---

# @bottino/baileys@1.0.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Caller-selected media may be uploaded to a selected fallback public hosting service.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 1.0.6
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17351 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory.

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

No confirmed malicious attack surface. The only third-party file upload behavior requires an explicit call to exported uploadFile with a caller-supplied buffer.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 93.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-30T10:33:13.306Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-30T10:35:08.617Z
- **Download time:** 755 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3025 ms
- **AI review time:** 111526 ms
- **Total time:** 115311 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 confirmed malicious attack surface. The only third-party file upload behavior requires an explicit call to exported uploadFile with a caller-supplied buffer.

- **Trigger:** Caller explicitly invokes uploadFile or other network utility at runtime.

- **Impact:** Caller-selected media may be uploaded to a selected fallback public hosting service.

- **Evidence paths:** package.json, engine-requirements.js, lib/Utils/messages-media.js, lib/Utils/generics.js, lib/Socket/registration.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-30T10:35:08.617Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** User-invoked media upload and WhatsApp API support.

- **Rationale:** The lifecycle hook is a local Node-version check, while network and process capabilities are runtime WhatsApp/media features. No automatic credential collection, exfiltration, remote payload execution, persistence, or agent-control mutation was found.

- **Files touched:** package.json, engine-requirements.js, lib/index.js, lib/Utils/messages-media.js, lib/Utils/generics.js, lib/Socket/registration.js, lib/Utils/use-multi-file-auth-state.js

- **Network endpoints:** https://catbox.moe/user/api.php, https://scdn.pdi.moe/upload, https://qu.ax/upload.php, https://uguu.se/upload.php, https://tmpfiles.org/api/v1/upload, https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pernapasquale647-dotcom/bottino-site/main/baileys-version.json, https://web.whatsapp.com/sw.js, https://v.whatsapp.net/v2

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 93.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json defines preinstall., lib/Utils/messages-media.js exports uploadFile, which sends caller-provided buffers to public upload hosts., lib/Utils/messages-media.js uses eval only to dynamically import optional audio-decode.

- **Evidence against:** engine-requirements.js preinstall only enforces Node.js \>=20 and exits on failure., No install-time network, file harvesting, shell execution, or persistence was found., uploadFile has no internal callers; it is an exported, explicit runtime API., ffmpeg spawn uses a fixed executable and constructed argument array for thumbnails., WhatsApp/version network requests are exported runtime utilities, not import-time actions.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @bottino/baileys@1.0.6.

- Avoid installing @bottino/baileys@1.0.6. 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: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

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

Package declares npm scripts.

### 3. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
matchedText = 'AIzaSyD...Lk',
```

### 4. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/Utils/messages-media.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L339: try {
L340: const { default: decoder } = await eval('import(\'audio-decode\')');
L341: let audioData;
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/Types/Message.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/Types/Message.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: exports.WAMessageStatus = exports.WAMessageStubType = exports.WAProto = void 0;
L4: const WAProto_1 = require("../../WAProto");
L5: Object.defineProperty(exports, "WAProto", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return WAProto_1.proto; } });
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/validate-connection.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/Utils/validate-connection.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L117: pull: false,
L118: devicePairingData: {
L119: buildHash: appVersionBuf,
...
L147: 
L148: let hmacPrefix = Buffer.from([])
L149: if (accountType !== undefined && accountType === WAProto_1.proto.ADVEncryptionType.HOSTED) {
...
L177: ])
L178: account.deviceSignature = crypto_2.Curve.sign(signedIdentityKey.private, deviceMsg)
L179: const identity = signal_1.createSignalIdentity(lid, accountSignatureKey)
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 8. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh>)

Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```shell
path = WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 304
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 13. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index\_test2.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/WAProto/index_test2.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
path = WAProto/index_test2.js
kind = oversized_source_file
sizeBytes = 11628832
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

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

Package manifest contains a git dependency.

### 16. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
matchedText = 'AIzaSyD...Lk',
```

### 17. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@bottino/baileys@1.0.6/lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 20
matchedText = export d..."]];
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @bottino/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 1.0.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-11T13:41:39.294Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-09-30T10:35:08.617Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-01T17:40:04.408Z
- **Known versions:** 13
- **Latest version:** 1.0.14
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@bottino/baileys/v/1.0.6>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17351>)
- [ARTICLE](<https://www.ox.security/blog/phantomsub-malicious-npm-campaign-secretly-adds-users-to-whatsapp-spam-channels/>)
