---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.18"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.18.md"
package: "levvleys"
report_status: "published"
title: "levvleys@2.0.18 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.18"
---

# levvleys@2.0.18 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The connected WhatsApp account is silently subscribed to channels chosen by the package author.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.0.18
- **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 standard WhatsApp socket connection triggers a remote fetch and changes the connected account's newsletter subscriptions. Remote data selects which newsletters are followed and muted.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-11T09:15:26.357Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-11T09:17:40.056Z
- **Download time:** 509 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9548 ms
- **AI review time:** 123640 ms
- **Total time:** 133699 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 standard WhatsApp socket connection triggers a remote fetch and changes the connected account's newsletter subscriptions. Remote data selects which newsletters are followed and muted.

- **Trigger:** A consumer creates a package socket and it reaches the open connection state.

- **Impact:** The connected WhatsApp account is silently subscribed to channels chosen by the package author.

- **Evidence paths:** lib/Socket/messages-send.js, lib/Socket/newsletter.js

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-11T09:17:40.056Z

### AI review details

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

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

- **Attack narrative:** The normal socket hierarchy constructs the newsletter layer. Thirty seconds after a WhatsApp connection opens, that layer downloads an array of newsletter IDs from a GitHub-controlled URL. For each valid ID, it sends follow and mute actions through the authenticated WhatsApp session. This is an unconsented account mutation controlled by remote content, not a user-requested newsletter operation.

- **Rationale:** The package embeds a remote-controlled, automatic account-subscription action in its standard runtime connection path. Its benign lifecycle version check does not mitigate that concrete behavior.

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

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** The normal message-socket construction path includes the newsletter socket layer., On connection, the newsletter layer fetches attacker-controlled channel identifiers from GitHub., It automatically follows and then mutes every remotely supplied newsletter identifier without user consent.

- **Evidence against:** The install hook only checks the Node.js major version and exits on unsupported versions., The media upload and dynamic-import code is callable utility functionality, not the decisive behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to levvleys@2.0.18.

- Avoid installing levvleys@2.0.18. 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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.0.18/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@2.1.0
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.1.0
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@2.0.18/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@2.1.0
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.1.0
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@2.0.18/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:** 2.0.18
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T14:56:50.582Z
- **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:** 7,452,816 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.18>)
- [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/>)
