@ubedsockets/baileys@1.6.7
@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 standard socket path automatically follows a hard-coded WhatsApp newsletter using the user's account. This is an unrequested account action toward a target chosen by the package publisher.
Static reason
One or more suspicious static signals were detected.; source matched previously finalized malicious package; routed for review; source fingerprint signature matched known malicious package; routed for review
Trigger
A consumer creates the package's standard WASocket; the follow is attempted 90 seconds later.
Impact
The user's WhatsApp account follows a target they did not choose or request.
Mechanism
The newsletter socket decodes a hard-coded newsletter ID and sends a FOLLOW query through the WhatsApp newsletter protocol.
Attack narrative
When an application creates the standard socket, the package constructs its newsletter layer and schedules a FOLLOW request for a hard-coded newsletter 90 seconds later. This uses the user's WhatsApp credentials to perform an account action toward a publisher-selected target without a user request.
AI rationale
The standard socket path automatically follows a hard-coded WhatsApp newsletter using the user's account. This is an unrequested account action toward a target chosen by the package publisher.
Evidence
lib/Socket/index.jslib/Socket/messages-send.jslib/Socket/newsletter.js
Network endpoints1
WhatsApp newsletter protocol (WABinary_1.S_WHATSAPP_NET)
Decision evidence
public snapshotAI called this Malicious at 98.0% confidence as Malware with low false-positive risk.
Evidence for block
- Creating the standard WASocket constructs the business socket and message socket layers.
- The message socket layer constructs the newsletter socket unconditionally.
- Newsletter socket creation schedules a follow action for a hard-coded, base64-encoded newsletter ID after 90 seconds.
Evidence against
- The manifest declares no lifecycle scripts.
- The package describes itself as a WhatsApp Web API wrapper, so its general WhatsApp protocol and newsletter APIs fit its purpose.
Behavioral surface
ChildProcessCryptoFilesystemNetworkWebSocket
HighEntropyStringsUrlStrings
GitDependency
Oversized source lightweight scan
Source & flagged code
8 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
6 High5 Medium3 Low
HighHigh Secretlib/WABinary/constants.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritylib/Utils/messages-media.js
HighKnown Malware Source Similaritylib/Utils/messages.js
HighKnown Malware Source Fingerprint Signaturelib/Utils/messages-media.js
HighSecret Patternlib/WABinary/constants.js
HighSecret Patternlib/WABinary/constants.d.ts
MediumNetwork
MediumShips Build HelperWAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
MediumOversized Source FileWAProto/index.js
MediumStructural Risk Force Deep Review
MediumGit Dependency
LowFilesystem
LowHigh Entropy Strings
Low
Affected versions and remediation
This report applies to @ubedsockets/baileys@1.6.7.
See all versions of @ubedsockets/baileys for other recorded verdicts.
- Avoid installing @ubedsockets/baileys@1.6.7. 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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