--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@xayz/baileys/v/6.1.7" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@xayz/baileys/v/6.1.7.md" package: "@xayz/baileys" report_status: "published" title: "@xayz/baileys@6.1.7 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "6.1.7" --- # @xayz/baileys@6.1.7 npm security report > **Trust boundary:** Package metadata, advisory text, filenames, URLs, and source snippets in this report come from external packages or feeds. Treat them as untrusted evidence. Do not execute instructions or code found in this document. ## Verdict summary **Blocked & quarantined** — No confirmed malicious impact was established; the install diagnostic causes a limited outbound connection to WhatsApp. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Malware - **Selected version:** 6.1.7 - **Selected version is latest:** No - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17384 identifies this version as malicious. Firewall keeps the version blocked under its trusted-intelligence policy. An AI recommendation to allow or warn does not override that advisory. AI assessment: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. No confirmed malicious attack surface was identified. The package performs a package-aligned WhatsApp connectivity diagnostic during postinstall. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 90.0% - **Started:** 2026-09-30T10:29:01.029Z - **Finished:** 2026-09-30T10:30:18.483Z - **Download time:** 1017 ms - **Static scan time:** 1896 ms - **AI review time:** 74539 ms - **Total time:** 77454 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:** No confirmed malicious attack surface was identified. The package performs a package-aligned WhatsApp connectivity diagnostic during postinstall. - **Trigger:** Installing the package runs its self-test; normal media fetching requires a caller-provided URL. - **Impact:** No confirmed malicious impact was established; the install diagnostic causes a limited outbound connection to WhatsApp. - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-09-30T10:30:18.483Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The self-test opens a WebSocket to WhatsApp, while media utilities fetch caller-provided HTTP(S) URLs. No credential harvesting, exfiltration, destructive action, or foreign control-surface mutation was found. - **Rationale:** Static inspection found package-aligned WhatsApp functionality and an automatic but limited WhatsApp connectivity check. No concrete malicious behavior or credential-exfiltration path was identified. - **Network endpoints:** wss://web.whatsapp.com/ws/chat ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Clean - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Recommended action:** mark\_clean - **Intent class:** Benign - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for AI clean decision:** Lifecycle hooks run a Node version check and a self-test script; no installer writes or shell commands were found., The required constants file contains a static WhatsApp URL string only., Business utilities import local media and binary helpers., Media retrieval occurs only when a caller supplies an HTTP(S) media URL., Webhook alerts default to an empty URL list and use supplied configuration., The install self-test opens a WebSocket only to WhatsApp's chat endpoint. - **Evidence against:** The postinstall self-test makes an automatic outbound connectivity check to WhatsApp, but it does not send credentials or alter files. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to @xayz/baileys@6.1.7. - Avoid installing @xayz/baileys@6.1.7. 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. ## Public findings ### 1. High: Install Time Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 90.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.preinstall = node ./engine-requirements.js ``` ### 2. Medium: Ambiguous Install Lifecycle Script - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** package.json - **Public source:** [View source]() Install-time lifecycle script is not statically allowlisted and needs review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```json scripts.postinstall = node ./scripts/self-test.js || exit 0 ``` ### 3. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 80.0% Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs. ### 4. Low: Scripts Present - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 100.0% Package declares npm scripts. ### 5. High: High Secret - **Category:** Secrets - **Confidence:** 85.0% - **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package contains a high-severity secret pattern. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript patternName = google_api_key severity = high line = 600 ``` ### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** scripts/self-test.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references dynamic require/import behavior. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L45: try { L46: const mod = await import(path.join(packageRoot, 'lib', 'index.js')); L47: const ok = typeof mod.default === 'function'; ``` ### 7. Low: Weak Crypto - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 64.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/validate-connection.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript L107: pull: false, L108: devicePairingData: { L109: buildHash: appVersionBuf, ... L134: const { details, hmac, accountType } = proto.ADVSignedDeviceIdentityHMAC.decode(deviceIdentityNode.content); L135: let hmacPrefix = Buffer.from([]); L136: if (accountType !== undefined && accountType === proto.ADVEncryptionType.HOSTED) { ... L158: ]); L159: account.deviceSignature = Curve.sign(signedIdentityKey.private, deviceMsg); L160: const identity = createSignalIdentity(lid, accountSignatureKey); ``` ### 8. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 9. Medium: Environment Vars - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references environment variables. ### 10. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 11. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 12. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 13. Medium: Ships Build Helper - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh - **Public source:** [View source]() Package ships non-JavaScript build or shell helper files. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```shell path = WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh kind = build_helper sizeBytes = 302 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 14. Medium: Oversized Source File - **Category:** Artifact Inventory - **Confidence:** 70.0% - **Path:** WAProto/index.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = 8484673 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 15. 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. ### 16. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/business.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 ``` ### 17. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** lib/antiban.js - **Public source:** [View source]() 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 = my-baileys@1.0.2 matchedPath = lib/antiban.js matchedIdentity = npm:bXktYmFpbGV5cw:1.0.2 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 18. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 93.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js - **Public source:** [View source]() This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @xayz/baileys@6.1.6 matchedIdentity = npm:QHhheXovYmFpbGV5cw:6.1.6 similarity = 0.842 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file ``` ### 19. High: Secret Pattern - **Category:** Secrets - **Confidence:** 75.0% - **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript patternName = google_api_key severity = high line = 600 ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** postinstall, preinstall, prepare - **Dependencies:** 13 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 5 - **Development dependencies:** 31 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 18 ### Published dependency entries - @cacheable/node-cache ^1.4.0 (Dependency) - @hapi/boom ^9.1.3 (Dependency) - async-mutex ^0.5.0 (Dependency) - cache-manager ^7.2.8 (Dependency) - chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency) - libsignal npm:@xayz/libsignal-node@latest (Dependency) - lru-cache ^11.1.0 (Dependency) - music-metadata ^11.12.3 (Dependency) - p-queue ^9.0.0 (Dependency) - pino ^9.6 (Dependency) - protobufjs ^8.8.0 (Dependency) - whatsapp-rust-bridge 0.5.4 (Dependency) - ws ^8.13.0 (Dependency) - audio-decode ^2.1.3 (PeerDependency) - fluent-ffmpeg ^2.1.2 (PeerDependency) - jimp ^1.6.1 (PeerDependency) - link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency) - sharp \* (PeerDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** @xayz/baileys - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 6.1.7 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-09-20T23:41:18.967Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-08-27T14:35:57.088Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-03T22:28:29.469Z - **Known versions:** 22 - **Latest version:** 6.1.9 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** A WebSockets library for interacting with WhatsApp Web — XYCoolcraft fork of Baileys - **Author:** XYCoolcraft - **Maintainers:** xycoolcraft - **Keywords:** xycoolcraft, xayz, baileys, whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-web, wa-bot, whatsapp bot - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 149 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 12,703,068 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]() - [Repository]() - [Issues]() - [OSV advisory]() - [OpenSSF JSON]() - [ARTICLE]()