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@open-wa/core@5.2.0

Core orchestration backbone for open-wa WhatsApp automation

AI Security Review

scanned 9d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

Configured live patching downloads scripts and evaluates them in an authenticated WhatsApp Web page. No confirmed malicious payload is present in this snapshot.

Static reason

High-risk behavior combination matched malicious policy.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; source fingerprint signature matched known malicious package; routed for review; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

A caller launches the transport with patch configuration.

Impact

A compromised patch endpoint could execute arbitrary page-context code, with access to the active WhatsApp Web session.

Mechanism

The transport fetches patch arrays from package-controlled remote endpoints and passes each script to the browser evaluation interface; remote scripts are cached for recovery reapplication.

AI rationale

The remote script download-and-evaluation path is a concrete dangerous capability, but it is configuration-triggered and no payload or exfiltration behavior was confirmed. The obfuscated bundled patch increases audit uncertainty.

Evidence

dist/index.mjs

Network endpoints2

cdn.openwa.dev/patches.jsonraw.githubusercontent.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs/master/patches.json

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Suspicious at 90.0% confidence as Dangerous Capability with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for warning

The manifest has no install lifecycle hook.
When the transport starts with patch configuration, it fetches remote patch artifacts.
Remote artifact scripts are evaluated in the browser page and retained for recovery reapplication.
The patch source is selected from OpenWA CDN or a GitHub raw fallback.
A bundled page patch is deliberately obfuscated.

Evidence against

Remote patching is activated through transport patch configuration rather than during package installation.
No static evidence showed secret harvesting, foreign endpoint exfiltration, or host-command execution.

Behavioral surface

Source

CryptoDynamicRequireEvalFilesystemNetwork

Supply chain

DownloadedExecutionHighEntropyStringsMinifiedPossibleObfuscationUrlStrings

Manifest

NoLicense

scanned 10 file(s), 612 KB of source, external domains: cdn.openwa.dev, chat.whatsapp.com, crashlogs.whatsapp.net, dit.whatsapp.net, funcs.openwa.dev, github.com, raw.githubusercontent.com, web.whatsapp.com, www.w3.org

Source & flagged code

10 flagged

dist/transport/assets/base64.jsView file

Lines 1-1javascript

1!function(e,o){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=o(e):"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(o):o(e)}("undefined"!=typeof self?self:"undefined"!=typeof window?window:"undefined"!=typeof global?global:this,function(global){"use strict";global=global||{};var _Base64=global.Base64,version="2.5.2",buffer;if("undefined"!=typeof module&&module.exports)try{buffer=eval("require('buffer').Buffer")}catch(e){buffer=void 0}var b64chars="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/",b64tab=function(e){for(var o={},r=0,t=e.length;r<t;r++)o[e.charAt ...

High

Eval

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

dist/transport/assets/base64.jsView on unpkg · L1

Long lines were clipped for display.

dist/transport/assets/launch.jsView file

Lines 1-10javascript

2 (async function() {

3 if(WAPI.sendMessage.toString().includes('Not a contact') && !WAPI.sendMessageToID) {

4 //evaluate the code

dist/transport/assets/wapi.jsView file

Lines 1-39javascript

1/**

2 * This script contains WAPI functions that need to be run in the context of the webpage

3 */

5/**

6 * Auto discovery the webpack object references of instances that contains all functions used by the WAPI

7 * functions and creates the Store object.

8 */

10if (!window.Store ||

dist/transport/assets/init_patch.jsView file

Lines 1-1javascript

1function _0x264f1c(_0x51a492,_0x4368a7){return _0x46f3(_0x51a492-0x2ab,_0x4368a7);}(function(_0x4e0037,_0x16b75e){function _0x4bbdfe(_0x194876,_0x43510b

dist/transport/assets/base64.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

dist/transport/assets/base64.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/index.cjsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @open-wa/core@5.0.0-alpha.8 matchedIdentity = npm:QG9wZW4td2EvY29yZQ:5.0.0-alpha.8 similarity = 0.727 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @open-wa/core@5.1.0 matchedPath = dist/index.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:QG9wZW4td2EvY29yZQ:5.1.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

•matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature signature = fe926022c06b8a75 signatureType = suspicious_hashes sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious matchedPackage = @open-wa/core@5.1.0 matchedPath = dist/index.cjs matchedIdentity = npm:QG9wZW4td2EvY29yZQ:5.1.0 similarity = 1.000 shingleOverlap = 8 summary = package final verdict is malicious

High

Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature

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

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

dist/index.mjsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @open-wa/core@5.1.0 matchedPath = dist/index.mjs matchedIdentity = npm:QG9wZW4td2EvY29yZQ:5.1.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/index.mjsView on unpkg

dist/transport/assets/hash.jsView file

•matchType = normalized_sha256 matchedPackage = @open-wa/core@5.1.0 matchedPath = dist/transport/assets/hash.js matchedIdentity = npm:QG9wZW4td2EvY29yZQ:5.1.0 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/transport/assets/hash.jsView on unpkg

Source & flagged code

10 flagged · loading source

dist/transport/assets/base64.jsView file

1!function(e,o){"object"==typeof exports&&"undefined"!=typeof module?module.exports=o(e):"function"==typeof define&&define.amd?define(o):o(e)}("undefined"!=typeof self?self:"undefin...

High

Eval

Package source references dynamic code evaluation.

dist/transport/assets/base64.jsView on unpkg · L1

dist/transport/assets/launch.jsView file

4//evaluate the code L5: window.moduleRaid=function(){moduleRaid.mID=Math.random().toString(36).substring(7),moduleRaid.mObj={};const e=parseInt(window.Debug?.VERSION?.split(".")?.[1])>=3e3;return fillModu... L6: window.isRipeSession=function(){return document.getElementsByClassName(require("WAWebIntroPanel.scss").intro).length};;

Medium

Dynamic Require

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

dist/transport/assets/launch.jsView on unpkg · L4

dist/transport/assets/wapi.jsView file

19{ id: "Wap", module: "WAWebCreateGroupAction", conditions: (module) => (module.createGroup) ? module : null }, L20: { id: "State", module: "WAWebSocketModel", conditions: (module) => (module.STATE && module.STREAM) ? module : null }, L21: { id: "_Presence", module: "WAWebContactPresenceBridge", conditions: (module) => (module.setPresenceAvailable && module.setPresenceUnavailable) ? module : null }, ... L105: contact: obj['contact'] ? window.WAPI._serializeContactObj(obj['contact']) : null, L106: groupMetadata: obj["groupMetadata"] ? window.WAPI._serializeRawObj(obj["groupMetadata"]) : null, L107: presence: obj["presence"] ? window.WAPI._serializeRawObj(obj["presence"]) : null, ... L606: * @returns {Promise.<*>} Yields group metadata L607: * @private L608: */ ... L955: const ab = (awai

Critical

Remote Asset Decode Execute

Source fetches a remote non-code asset, decodes its contents, and dynamically executes the decoded payload.

dist/transport/assets/wapi.jsView on unpkg · L19

dist/transport/assets/init_patch.jsView file

1function _0x264f1c(_0x51a492,_0x4368a7){return _0x46f3(_0x51a492-0x2ab,_0x4368a7);}(function(_0x4e0037,_0x16b75e){function _0x4bbdfe(_0x194876,_0x43510b){return _0x46f3(_0x43510b-0...

High

Obfuscated Payload Loader

Source contains an obfuscated payload loader that reconstructs and executes hidden code.

dist/transport/assets/init_patch.jsView on unpkg · L1

dist/transport/assets/base64.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

dist/transport/assets/base64.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/index.cjsView file

Critical

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

High

Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature

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

dist/index.cjsView on unpkg

dist/index.mjsView file

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/index.mjsView on unpkg

dist/transport/assets/hash.jsView file

High

Known Malware Source Similarity

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

dist/transport/assets/hash.jsView on unpkg

Findings

2 Critical7 High3 Medium5 Low

CriticalRemote Asset Decode Executedist/transport/assets/wapi.js

CriticalPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/index.cjs

HighEvaldist/transport/assets/base64.js

HighObfuscated Payload Loaderdist/transport/assets/init_patch.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/transport/assets/base64.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/index.cjs

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/index.mjs

HighKnown Malware Source Similaritydist/transport/assets/hash.js

HighKnown Malware Source Fingerprint Signaturedist/index.cjs

MediumDynamic Requiredist/transport/assets/launch.js

MediumNetwork

MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

LowHigh Entropy Strings

LowUrl Strings

LowNo License

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @open-wa/core@5.2.0.

See version security history for other recorded verdicts.

Review the evidence and your use of @open-wa/core@5.2.0 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.

Evidence last updated: 2026-09-29 19:18:37.456Z (UTC).

90%Suspicious

AI assessment confidence

IntentDangerous Capability

TypeRemote Code Execution

False-positive riskLow

Review stagesource_first_review

Firewall policyMatched warn-list

Package metadata

npm

Maintainerssmashah

Version5.2.0

Latest on npm5.4.0

PublishedSep 29, 2026

LicenseSEE LICENSE IN LICENSE.md

Dependencies12

Integrityverified

Package size266 KB

Files19

LinksRepository Homepage Issues

Runtime surface

package.json

Entrypointsmain → ./dist/index.cjsmodule → ./dist/index.mjstypes → ./dist/index.d.mtsexports map

RuntimeNo engine / OS / CPU constraints

Artifact1.03 MB · 19 files2 signature(s) · provenance

Install lifecycleNo install hooks · other: build, clean, dev, lint +1

Behavioral surface

CryptoDynamicRequireEvalFilesystemNetworkDownloadedExecutionHighEntropyStringsMinifiedPossibleObfuscationUrlStringsNoLicense