---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.16"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.16.md"
package: "levvleys"
report_status: "published"
title: "levvleys@2.0.16 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.16"
---

# levvleys@2.0.16 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Unauthorized changes to the user's WhatsApp newsletter subscriptions.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.0.16
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **Analysis source:** AI Security Review (lpm-firewall-ai)

Trusted malware advisory MAL-2026-17397 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: malicious; recommendation: publish block. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

A connected user's WhatsApp account is silently made to follow and mute newsletters selected by a remote GitHub file. The list can change without a package update.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 98.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-09T23:58:41.546Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-09T23:59:39.045Z
- **Download time:** 512 ms
- **Static scan time:** 10358 ms
- **AI review time:** 46627 ms
- **Total time:** 57499 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:** A connected user's WhatsApp account is silently made to follow and mute newsletters selected by a remote GitHub file. The list can change without a package update.

- **Trigger:** A consumer opens an authenticated WhatsApp socket; the action runs 30 seconds later.

- **Impact:** Unauthorized changes to the user's WhatsApp newsletter subscriptions.

- **Evidence paths:** lib/Socket/newsletter.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-09T23:59:39.045Z

### AI review details

- **Review stage:** source\_first\_review

- **Mechanism:** Remote-controlled automatic newsletter follow and mute requests.

- **Attack narrative:** When a WhatsApp connection opens, the package waits 30 seconds, downloads a JSON list from a maintainer-controlled GitHub URL, and issues WhatsApp follow and mute requests for every valid newsletter ID in that list. This is an unconsented, remotely adjustable action on the user's account rather than a requested library operation.

- **Rationale:** The package contains a concrete, automatic remote-controlled action that changes a user's WhatsApp account state. Its benign Node-version preinstall check does not mitigate that behavior.

- **Network endpoints:** raw.githubusercontent.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 98.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** On each authenticated WhatsApp connection, the package retrieves a remotely controlled list and follows then mutes every listed newsletter., The remote-controlled account action is scheduled automatically 30 seconds after connection opens, without an application opt-in.

- **Evidence against:** The preinstall hook only checks that Node.js is version 20 or newer., The dynamic import expression loads the fixed optional audio-decode dependency for waveform processing; it is not remote code execution.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to levvleys@2.0.16.

- Avoid installing levvleys@2.0.16. 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](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/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/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
```

### 5. Low: Eval
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 45.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/Utils/messages-media.js>)

Package source references a known benign dynamic code generation pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L369: try {
L370: const { default: decoder } = await eval('import(\'audio-decode\')');
L371: let audioData;
```

### 6. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/Types/Message.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/Types/Message.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: exports.WAMessageStatus = exports.WAMessageStubType = exports.WAProto = void 0;
L4: const WAProto_1 = require("../../WAProto");
L5: Object.defineProperty(exports, "WAProto", { enumerable: true, get: function () { return WAProto_1.proto; } });
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

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

Package source contains high-entropy string patterns.

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

Package source contains URL literals.

### 11. Medium: Oversized Source File
- **Category:** Artifact Inventory
- **Confidence:** 70.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/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 = 5329994
magicHex = [redacted]
```

### 12. 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.

### 13. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** WAProto/index.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/WAProto/index.js>)

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 = 3
```

### 14. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/Utils/messages-media.js>)

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 = levvleys@2.0.10
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.0.10
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 15. High: Known Malware Source Similarity
- **Category:** Static
- **Confidence:** 97.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/Utils/messages.js>)

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 = levvleys@2.0.10
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.0.10
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.16/lib/WABinary/constants.js>)

Google API key in lib/WABinary/constants.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 603
```

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes
- **Published lifecycle scripts:** preinstall, prepare
- **Dependencies:** 19
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 5
- **Development dependencies:** 20
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 24

### 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)
- axios ^1.6.0 (Dependency)
- cache-manager ^5.7.6 (Dependency)
- chalk ^4.1.2 (Dependency)
- cheerio ^1.0.0-rc.10 (Dependency)
- gradient-string ^2.0.2 (Dependency)
- libphonenumber-js ^1.10.20 (Dependency)
- libsignal npm:@levvicode/libsignal-node (Dependency)
- lodash ^4.17.21 (Dependency)
- lru-cache ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- music-metadata ^7.12.3 (Dependency)
- p-queue ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- pino ^9.6 (Dependency)
- protobufjs ^6.11.3 (Dependency)
- uuid ^10.0.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.13.0 (Dependency)
- audio-decode ^2.1.3 (PeerDependency)
- jimp ^0.22.12 (PeerDependency)
- link-preview-js ^3.0.0 (PeerDependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (PeerDependency)
- sharp ^0.34.1 (PeerDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** levvleys
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 2.0.16
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-08T11:41:04.118Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-02T07:28:34.954Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-09-30T10:35:08.617Z
- **Known versions:** 29
- **Latest version:** 2.1.0
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** WhatsApp Web API Library
- **Author:** LevviCode
- **Keywords:** levvleys, baileys, whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-web, whatsapp-bot, automation, multi-device
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=20.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 99
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 7,456,317 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.16>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/LevviCodeID/levvleys.git>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/LevviCodeID/levvleys>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/LevviCodeID/levvleys/issues>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17397>)
- [ARTICLE](<https://www.ox.security/blog/phantomsub-malicious-npm-campaign-secretly-adds-users-to-whatsapp-spam-channels/>)
