---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@denzz221/baileys"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@denzz221/baileys/v/7.0.0.md"
package: "@denzz221/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "7.0.0"
---

# @denzz221/baileys@7.0.0 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The account performs an unsolicited follow action toward a publisher-chosen target.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Block by default
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 7.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

LPM AI independently confirmed malicious behavior in this version and supplies the Firewall block.

AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

The package automatically follows a publisher-chosen WhatsApp newsletter when its messages socket is created. This uses the user's account for an unsolicited account action, so the package is malicious.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-11-05T06:53:08.212Z
- **Finished:** 2026-11-05T06:53:54.412Z
- **Download time:** 766 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1850 ms
- **AI review time:** 43583 ms
- **Total time:** 46200 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:** Socket creation automatically follows a publisher-selected WhatsApp newsletter using the user's account.

- **Trigger:** Creating the messages socket, which is part of ordinary socket construction.

- **Impact:** The account performs an unsolicited follow action toward a publisher-chosen target.

- **Evidence paths:** lib/Socket/messages-send.js, lib/Socket/newsletter.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-11-05T06:53:54.412Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** A 90-second timer submits a FOLLOW query for channel 120363400780200098@newsletter through the WhatsApp query function.

- **Attack narrative:** Creating a messages socket initializes the newsletter socket, which schedules a follow request to the hard-coded channel 120363400780200098@newsletter. When the timer fires, it sends the FOLLOW query through the WhatsApp connection, using the account without a user request.

- **Rationale:** The package automatically follows a publisher-chosen WhatsApp newsletter when its messages socket is created. This uses the user's account for an unsolicited account action, so the package is malicious.

- **Network endpoints:** WhatsApp service (WABinary\_1.S\_WHATSAPP\_NET)

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The package is a WhatsApp API library whose main entry point is lib/index.js., Creating the messages socket creates the newsletter socket., The newsletter socket schedules a follow request to the hard-coded channel 120363400780200098@newsletter., The follow request is sent as a query to WhatsApp.

- **Evidence against:** The preinstall script only checks the Node.js major version and exits on versions below 20., The other hard-coded newsletter identifier appears in code that constructs an event message for a supplied recipient.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @denzz221/baileys@7.0.0.

- Avoid installing @denzz221/baileys@7.0.0. 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/@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0/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/@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0/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-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0/lib/Utils/messages-media.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 = @denzz221/baileys@8.0.8
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGRlbnp6MjIxL2JhaWxleXM:8.0.8
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 12. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0/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 = @denzz221/baileys@8.0.8
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGRlbnp6MjIxL2JhaWxleXM:8.0.8
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 13. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@denzz221/baileys@7.0.0/lib/Utils/messages-media.js>)

Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature
signature = 576d5040fcd70b1d
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = @denzz221/baileys@8.0.5
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:QGRlbnp6MjIxL2JhaWxleXM:8.0.5
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 66
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 4
- **Development dependencies:** 20
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 23

### 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)
- audio-decode ^2.1.3 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.3.3 (Dependency)
- cache-manager 4.0.1 (Dependency)
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- futoin-hkdf ^1.5.1 (Dependency)
- libphonenumber-js ^1.10.20 (Dependency)
- libsignal github:denzz221/libsignal-node (Dependency)
- lodash ^4.17.21 (Dependency)
- music-metadata ^7.12.3 (Dependency)
- node-cache ^5.1.2 (Dependency)
- node-fetch ^2.6.1 (Dependency)
- pino ^7.0.0 (Dependency)
- protobufjs ^7.2.4 (Dependency)
- uuid ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.13.0 (Dependency)
- jimp ^0.16.1 (PeerDependency)
- link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (PeerDependency)
- sharp ^0.32.2 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @denzz221/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 7.0.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-03-25T19:46:35.752Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-11-05T06:53:32.205Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-11-05T06:54:26.667Z
- **Known versions:** 11
- **Latest version:** 2.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** WhatsApp API Modification By By DenixXvynix
- **Author:** DenixXvynix
- **Keywords:** whatsapp, laurine-wabot, baileys, whatsapp-web, whatsapp-chat, whatsapp-group, botwa, stvnnvs
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 194
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 9,838,415 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@denzz221/baileys/v/7.0.0>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/denzz221/Bailey.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/denzz221/Bailey>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/denzz221/Bailey/issues>)
- [OpenSSF/OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18675>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/@denzz221/baileys/MAL-2026-18675.json>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@denzz221/baileys>)
- [WEB](<https://www.ox.security/blog/phantomsub-malicious-npm-campaign-secretly-adds-users-to-whatsapp-spam-channels/>)
