--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@crysnovax/baileys/v/2.7.16" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@crysnovax/baileys/v/2.7.16.md" package: "@crysnovax/baileys" report_status: "published" title: "@crysnovax/baileys@2.7.16 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "2.7.16" --- # @crysnovax/baileys@2.7.16 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Malware - **Selected version:** 2.7.16 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV) OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-15917 confirms this npm version as malicious. @crysnovax/baileys is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library. On every successful connection (connection.update with connection === 'open', wired in lib/Socket/socket.js) it silently makes the user's own authenticated WhatsApp account follow two channels controlled by the publisher, 120363402922206865@newsletter and 120363423670814885@newsletter, through the xwa2\_newsletter\_join\_v2 FOLLOW query, with no... ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1 - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-04T06:20:06.873Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-04T06:20:06.873Z - **Download time:** Not available - **Static scan time:** Not available - **AI review time:** Not available - **Total time:** Not available ## Security analysis No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available. ## Public findings ### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory - **Category:** External Intel - **Confidence:** 100.0% @crysnovax/baileys is a renamed fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library. On every successful connection (connection.update with connection === 'open', wired in lib/Socket/socket.js) it silently makes the user's own authenticated WhatsApp account follow two channels controlled by the publisher, 120363402922206865@newsletter and 120363423670814885@newsletter, through the xwa2\_newsletter\_join\_v2 FOLLOW query, with no opt-out and a creds.additionalData.crysnovaxFollowed once-flag. From 2.7.10 the module that performs the follow (lib/Utils/channel-policy.js) is the only file in the package run through javascript-obfuscator (declared as a devDependency with an 'obfuscate' npm script); pkgwarden re-implemented the rotated string-table decoder to recover the channel ids without executing the code. Separately, from 2.7.6, lib/Utils/integrity.js POSTs the package name and version plus a SHA-256 machine fingerprint to https://bailey.crysnovax.link/api/v1/verify on every connect (a publisher-controlled kill switch that fails open), and the update check is repointed to web.crysnovax.link. Earlier versions (1.0.3 through 2.7.5) carry the same forced follow in plaintext with a comment calling it a 'condition of use'; they are not listed here. The listed versions combine the concealed follow with the fingerprint phone-home. Reachability was confirmed by following the socket chain from makeWASocket. No credential or session-key theft was observed. All listed versions were fetched from the npm registry and read by hand on 2026-09-03; the current latest tag (2.8.3) is armed. Related family: MAL-2026-13932 and MAL-2026-15819 (Baileys-fork newsletter auto-follow campaign). ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall - **Dependencies:** 15 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 6 - **Development dependencies:** 1 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 21 ### Published dependency entries - @adiwajshing/keyed-db ^0.2.4 (Dependency) - @cacheable/node-cache ^1.4.0 (Dependency) - @hapi/boom ^9.1.3 (Dependency) - async-mutex ^0.5.0 (Dependency) - cache-manager ^7.2.8 (Dependency) - fflate ^0.8.2 (Dependency) - libsignal ^6.0.0 (Dependency) - long ^5.2.3 (Dependency) - lru-cache ^11.2.6 (Dependency) - music-metadata ^11.12.3 (Dependency) - p-queue ^9.1.0 (Dependency) - pino ^9.6.0 (Dependency) - protobufjs ^7.5.6 (Dependency) - whatsapp-rust-bridge 0.5.5 (Dependency) - ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency) - @napi-rs/image ~1.12.0 (PeerDependency) - audio-decode ^2.2.3 (PeerDependency) - better-sqlite3 ^11.0.0 (PeerDependency) - jimp ^1.6.1 (PeerDependency) - link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency) - sharp \* (PeerDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @crysnovax/baileys - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 2.7.16 - **License:** SEE LICENSE IN LICENSE - **Version published:** 2026-08-26T10:12:32.450Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-11T23:16:43.921Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-09-04T06:20:06.873Z - **Known versions:** 19 - **Latest version:** 2.8.3 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** Production-ready Baileys fork ⚉ with AI groups, Meta AI prompting, safe compositing fallbacks, rich responses, interactive messages, albums, newsletters, and communities — without antiban wrappers. - **Author:** crysnovax - **Maintainers:** crysnovax - **Keywords:** automation, baileys, baileys-fork, baileys-mod, crysnova ai, cody ai, bot-planning-replay, crysnovax, interactive-messages, js-whatsapp, meta-compositing, multi-device - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 151 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 17,216,077 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 1 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Homepage]() - [OSV advisory]() - [PACKAGE]() - [ADVISORY]() - [ADVISORY]() - [WEB]()