@ubedsockets/baileys@1.3.0
@ubedsockets/baileys,baileys A high-performance WhatsApp Web API wrapper based on Baileys, optimized for bot developers with integrated utility scrapers.
AI Security Review
scanned 13h ago · by lpm-firewall-aiThe normal socket creation path automatically follows a hardcoded WhatsApp newsletter after a delay, using the user’s authenticated account. This is an unrequested account action toward a publisher-selected target, so the package is malicious.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
A caller creates the package’s normal WhatsApp socket; the action runs after a 90-second delay.
Impact
Uses the account’s authenticated WhatsApp connection to follow a target chosen by the package publisher.
Mechanism
The newsletter socket decodes a hardcoded newsletter ID and sends a WhatsApp newsletter FOLLOW query without caller consent.
Attack narrative
When the package creates a normal socket, its message-socket constructor also creates the newsletter socket. That socket schedules a 90-second timer, decodes a hardcoded newsletter ID, and sends a FOLLOW query using the caller’s authenticated WhatsApp connection. This performs a publisher-chosen account action without an explicit user request.
AI rationale
The normal socket creation path automatically follows a hardcoded WhatsApp newsletter after a delay, using the user’s authenticated account. This is an unrequested account action toward a publisher-selected target, so the package is malicious.
Evidence
lib/Socket/newsletter.jslib/Socket/messages-send.jslib/Socket/index.js
Network endpoints1
WhatsApp newsletter query over the authenticated WhatsApp connection
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Malicious at 99.0% confidence as Malware with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for block
- A timer decodes a hardcoded newsletter ID and issues a FOLLOW query 90 seconds after the newsletter socket is created.
- The standard socket construction path creates the newsletter socket automatically, so the follow does not require an explicit newsletter action from the caller.
Evidence against
- The manifest declares no lifecycle scripts.
- The package is a WhatsApp API library, so ordinary WhatsApp network requests and user-requested account operations fit its stated purpose.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoFilesystemNetworkWebSocket
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
GitDependency
Oversized source lightweight scan
Source & flagged code
6 flaggedlib/WABinary/constants.jsView file
603patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
High
High Secret
Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.
lib/WABinary/constants.jsView on unpkg · L603603patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
High
Secret Pattern
Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js
lib/WABinary/constants.jsView on unpkg · L603WAProto/GenerateStatics.shView file
•path = WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
kind = build_helper
sizeBytes = 301
magicHex = [redacted]
Medium
Ships Build Helper
Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files.
WAProto/GenerateStatics.shView on unpkgFindings
4 High5 Medium3 Low
HighHigh Secretlib/WABinary/constants.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritylib/Utils/messages-media.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritylib/Utils/messages.js
HighSecret Patternlib/WABinary/constants.js
MediumNetwork
MediumShips Build HelperWAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
MediumOversized Source FileWAProto/index.js
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
MediumGit Dependency
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
LowUrl Strings
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @ubedsockets/baileys@1.3.0.
See all versions of @ubedsockets/baileys for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing @ubedsockets/baileys@1.3.0. 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.
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