---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prototypevip/baileys/v/0.0.3"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prototypevip/baileys/v/0.0.3.md"
package: "@prototypevip/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "0.0.3"
---

# @prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3 npm security report

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## 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:** 0.0.3
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-13480 confirms this npm version as malicious. @prototypevip/baileys is a fork of the Baileys WhatsApp library. lib/Store/prototype-store.js registers a listener on the 'messages.upsert' event that runs on every incoming message. The listener body is obfuscated behind a base64 string table and a decoder (Buffer.from(s,'base64').toString('utf8')), which resolves to the property names 'type', 'md', 'ws', 'sendMessage', an Arabic message body ('you are no longer...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-07T01:30:03.398Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-07T01:30:10.483Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 7483 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 7085 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 90.0%
- **Path:** package.json
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/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/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 600
matchedText = "AIzaSyD...Lk",
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/validate-connection.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/lib/Utils/validate-connection.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L123: pull: false,
L124: devicePairingData: {
L125: buildHash: appVersionBuf,
...
L159: proto.ADVSignedDeviceIdentityHMAC.decode(deviceIdentityNode.content);
L160: let hmacPrefix = Buffer.from([]);
L161: if (
...
L198: ]);
L199: account.deviceSignature = Curve.sign(signedIdentityKey.private, deviceMsg);
L200: const identity = createSignalIdentity(lid, accountSignatureKey);
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 10. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/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 = 4439886
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 11. 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.

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

Package manifest contains a git dependency.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/business.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/lib/Utils/business.js>)

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

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_alias_growth_limit_exceeded; limitedFiles = 4
```

### 14. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@prototypevip/baileys@0.0.3/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 600
matchedText = "AIzaSyD...Lk",
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall
- **Dependencies:** 14
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 19

### 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)
- fflate ^0.8.2 (Dependency)
- fluent-ffmpeg ^2.1.3 (Dependency)
- libsignal github:WhiskeySockets/libsignal-wasm\#master (Dependency)
- lru-cache ^11.2.6 (Dependency)
- music-metadata ^11.7.0 (Dependency)
- p-queue ^9.1.0 (Dependency)
- pino ^9.6.0 (Dependency)
- protobufjs ^7.5.4 (Dependency)
- whatsapp-rust-bridge 0.5.3 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.19.0 (Dependency)
- @napi-rs/image ~1.12.0 (PeerDependency)
- audio-decode ^2.2.3 (PeerDependency)
- jimp \* (PeerDependency)
- link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- sharp \* (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @prototypevip/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 0.0.3
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-06T20:19:00.643Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-05T21:58:34.098Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-13T22:19:25.607Z
- **Known versions:** 8
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** A simple fork of Baileys for WhatsApp automation
- **Author:** The Prototype
- **Maintainers:** prototype1006
- **Keywords:** automation, baileys, baileys-fork, baileys-mod, js-whatsapp, multi-device, whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-bot, whatsapp-chat, whatsapp-group, whatsapp-web
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 119
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 5,893,959 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@prototypevip/baileys/v/0.0.3>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/GSK-F/baileys>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/GSK-F/baileys/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-13480>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/@prototypevip/baileys/v/0.0.3>)
