--- canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ipungg-baileys" markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ipungg-baileys/report.md" package: "ipungg-baileys" report_status: "published" title: "ipungg-baileys@1.0.2 npm security report" verdict: "malicious" version: "1.0.2" --- # ipungg-baileys@1.0.2 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** — The authenticated account is subscribed to a publisher-selected channel without the caller choosing that target. - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Product-default install policy:** Block - **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious - **Public report status:** Published - **Threat category:** Malware - **Selected version:** 1.0.2 - **Selected version is latest:** Yes - **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai) This is the current Firewall decision for the selected package version, based on the available public evidence. Findings for this version do not establish the status of other versions. AI assessment: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy. Source inspection confirms an automatic account action: the normal socket constructor follows a fixed publisher-selected newsletter. This is concrete unauthorized account mutation, so publication should be blocked. ## Latest scan - **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1 - **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious - **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0% - **Started:** 2026-10-16T00:52:58.540Z - **Finished:** 2026-10-16T00:54:06.520Z - **Download time:** 1281 ms - **Static scan time:** 4560 ms - **AI review time:** 62139 ms - **Total time:** 67980 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:** Creating the normal WhatsApp socket automatically follows a fixed newsletter channel. - **Trigger:** Calling the package’s socket constructor starts the follow routine; it also retries after the connection opens. - **Impact:** The authenticated account is subscribed to a publisher-selected channel without the caller choosing that target. - **Evidence paths:** package.json, lib/index.js, lib/Socket/index.js, lib/Socket/registration.js, lib/Socket/business.js, lib/Socket/messages-recv.js, lib/Socket/messages-send.js, lib/Socket/newsletter.js, lib/Types/Newsletter.js, lib/WABinary/jid-utils.js - **Review source:** ai\_review - **Reviewed:** 2026-10-16T00:54:06.520Z ### AI review details - **Review stage:** source\_first\_review - **Mechanism:** The routine sends a follow query for a hard-coded newsletter ID through the WhatsApp network. - **Attack narrative:** The public socket constructor reaches the newsletter socket, which starts a background routine that follows a fixed channel when the socket is created and again after connection opens. The routine retries if needed. This changes the authenticated account’s subscriptions without the caller selecting the channel. - **Rationale:** Source inspection confirms an automatic account action: the normal socket constructor follows a fixed publisher-selected newsletter. This is concrete unauthorized account mutation, so publication should be blocked. - **Files touched:** package.json, lib/index.js, lib/Socket/index.js, lib/Socket/registration.js, lib/Socket/business.js, lib/Socket/messages-recv.js, lib/Socket/messages-send.js, lib/Socket/newsletter.js, lib/Types/Newsletter.js, lib/WABinary/jid-utils.js - **Network endpoints:** s.whatsapp.net ### Review decision - **Verdict:** Malicious - **Confidence:** 99.0% - **Recommended action:** publish\_block - **Intent class:** Malware - **False-positive risk:** Low - **Evidence for block:** The socket sends a follow action for a fixed newsletter ID through the WhatsApp network query path., The follow runs automatically when the newsletter socket is created, with startup and connection timers and retries., The package’s public socket entrypoint reaches the newsletter socket through the normal constructor chain. ## Affected versions and remediation This report applies to ipungg-baileys@1.0.2. - Avoid installing ipungg-baileys@1.0.2. 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. 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. Medium: Network - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 75.0% Package source references network APIs. ### 5. Low: Filesystem - **Category:** Source - **Confidence:** 70.0% Package source references filesystem APIs. ### 6. Low: High Entropy Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 55.0% Package source contains high-entropy string patterns. ### 7. Low: Url Strings - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 65.0% Package source contains URL literals. ### 8. 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 = 4824821 magicHex = [redacted] ``` ### 9. 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. ### 10. Medium: Git Dependency - **Category:** Manifest - **Confidence:** 85.0% Package manifest contains a git dependency. ### 11. High: Semantic Analysis Limited - **Category:** Scanner Coverage - **Confidence:** 100.0% - **Path:** WAProto/index.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_path_work_budget_exceeded; limitedFiles = 1 ``` ### 12. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.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 = ipungg-baileys@1.0.1 matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js matchedIdentity = npm:aXB1bmdnLWJhaWxleXM:1.0.1 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 13. High: Known Malware Source Similarity - **Category:** Static - **Confidence:** 97.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/messages.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 = ipungg-baileys@1.0.1 matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js matchedIdentity = npm:aXB1bmdnLWJhaWxleXM:1.0.1 similarity = 1.000 summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source ``` ### 14. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature - **Category:** Supply Chain - **Confidence:** 94.0% - **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js - **Public source:** [View source]() Source fingerprint signature matches a known malicious package signature; route for source-aware review. Public source snippet (untrusted): ```javascript matchType = malicious_source_fingerprint_signature signature = ba644993be434fe2 signatureType = suspicious_hashes sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious matchedPackage = ipungg-baileys@1.0.1 matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js matchedIdentity = npm:aXB1bmdnLWJhaWxleXM:1.0.1 similarity = 1.000 shingleOverlap = 68 summary = package final verdict is malicious ``` ## Dependencies and install lifecycle - **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes - **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall, prepare - **Dependencies:** 20 - **Optional dependencies:** 0 - **Peer dependencies:** 3 - **Development dependencies:** 20 - **Published dependency-graph edges:** 23 ### 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) - audio-decode ^2.1.3 (Dependency) - axios ^1.3.3 (Dependency) - cache-manager 4.0.1 (Dependency) - chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency) - fluent-ffmpeg ^2.1.3 (Dependency) - futoin-hkdf ^1.5.1 (Dependency) - libphonenumber-js ^1.10.20 (Dependency) - libsignal npm:ipungg-libsignal-node@^1.0.0 (Dependency) - lodash ^4.17.21 (Dependency) - music-metadata ^7.12.3 (Dependency) - node-cache ^5.1.2 (Dependency) - node-fetch ^2.6.1 (Dependency) - pino ^7.0.0 (Dependency) - protobufjs ^7.2.4 (Dependency) - uuid ^9.0.0 (Dependency) - ws ^8.13.0 (Dependency) - link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency) - qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (PeerDependency) - sharp ^0.32.2 (PeerDependency) ## Package metadata - **Package:** ipungg-baileys - **Ecosystem:** npm - **Version:** 1.0.2 - **License:** MIT - **Version published:** 2026-10-16T00:51:47.344Z - **Package first seen:** 2026-10-14T21:35:44.396Z - **Package last seen:** 2026-10-16T00:54:06.520Z - **Known versions:** 3 - **Latest version:** 1.0.2 - **Appeal under review:** No - **Description:** WhatsApp Web API Library - Ipung Baileys with Auto Channel Follow - **Author:** Ipung - **Keywords:** whatsapp, baileys, whatsapp-web, whatsapp-chat, whatsapp-group, ipung, ipungg-baileys, botwa - **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0 - **Artifact files:** 102 - **Artifact unpacked size:** 6,997,061 bytes - **Artifact signatures:** 2 - **Attestations:** No ## References - [HTML security report]()