---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@zannstore/baileys/v/2.4.1"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@zannstore/baileys/v/2.4.1.md"
package: "@zannstore/baileys"
report_status: "published"
title: "@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.4.1"
---

# @zannstore/baileys@2.4.1 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:** 2.4.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-11179 confirms this npm version as malicious. Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-07-30T04:30:09.026Z
- **Finished:** 2026-07-30T04:30:10.916Z
- **Download time:** 510 ms
- **Static scan time:** 1377 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 1890 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/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/package.json>)

Package defines install-time lifecycle scripts.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```json
scripts.preinstall = node ./engine-requirements.js
```

### 2. Low: Non Install Lifecycle Scripts
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package declares lifecycle scripts that are not normally run for registry tarball installs.

### 3. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 4. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 620
matchedText = 'AIzaSyD...Lk',
```

### 5. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/bot-toolkit.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/lib/Utils/bot-toolkit.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L259: }
L260: const { downloadMediaMessage } = require('./messages');
L261: const buffer = await downloadMediaMessage({ message: target }, 'buffer', {});
```

### 6. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/validate-connection.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/lib/Utils/validate-connection.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L111: pull: false,
L112: devicePairingData: {
L113: buildHash: appVersionBuf,
...
L143: const { details, hmac, accountType } = proto.ADVSignedDeviceIdentityHMAC.decode(deviceIdentityNode.content);
L144: let hmacPrefix = Buffer.from([]);
L145: if (accountType !== undefined && accountType === proto.ADVEncryptionType.HOSTED) {
...
L167: ]);
L168: account.deviceSignature = Curve.sign(signedIdentityKey.private, deviceMsg);
L169: const identity = createSignalIdentity(lid, accountSignatureKey);
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 12. Medium: Ships Build Helper
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/WAProto/GenerateStatics.sh>)

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]
```

### 13. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/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 = 4435208
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 14. 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.

### 15. Medium: Wildcard Dependency
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 80.0%

Package manifest contains a wildcard dependency.

### 16. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 620
matchedText = 'AIzaSyD...Lk',
```

### 17. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/@zannstore/baileys@2.4.1/lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.d.ts

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```typescript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 20
matchedText = export d..."]];
```

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

## Package metadata
- **Package:** @zannstore/baileys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.4.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-07-29T10:27:17.738Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-30T04:30:10.916Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-07-30T04:30:10.916Z
- **Known versions:** 17
- **Latest version:** 2.4.4
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@zannstore/baileys/v/2.4.1>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-11179>)
- [OpenSSF JSON](<https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/npm/@zannstore/baileys/MAL-2026-11179.json>)
- [ADVISORY](<https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vw26-8qc4-8hmg>)
