---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.22"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.22.md"
package: "levvleys"
report_status: "published"
title: "levvleys@2.0.22 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "2.0.22"
---

# levvleys@2.0.22 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — The package operator can enroll a consumer account in arbitrary newsletters without user consent and alter its notification state.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 2.0.22
- **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 normal connection opening causes unrequested account actions. The package retrieves remotely selected WhatsApp newsletter IDs and follows and mutes them with the consumer's authenticated session.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Malicious
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 99.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-11T10:49:48.942Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-11T10:50:44.837Z
- **Download time:** 505 ms
- **Static scan time:** 9915 ms
- **AI review time:** 45474 ms
- **Total time:** 55895 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 normal connection opening causes unrequested account actions. The package retrieves remotely selected WhatsApp newsletter IDs and follows and mutes them with the consumer's authenticated session.

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

- **Impact:** The package operator can enroll a consumer account in arbitrary newsletters without user consent and alter its notification state.

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

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-11T10:50:44.837Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Remote-controlled automatic newsletter follows using the authenticated WhatsApp session.

- **Attack narrative:** After a socket connects, the package waits 30 seconds, downloads a mutable list from the publisher's GitHub repository, and follows every listed newsletter through the consumer's authenticated WhatsApp session. It then mutes each channel and suppresses failures. This is concealed, remotely controlled account manipulation unrelated to an explicit caller request.

- **Rationale:** The connection-triggered, remotely controlled use of a consumer's authenticated account to follow and mute arbitrary newsletters is concrete unauthorized behavior. The lifecycle hook is benign but does not mitigate the runtime attack.

- **Files touched:** lib/Socket/newsletter.js, package.json, engine-requirements.js

- **Network endpoints:** raw.githubusercontent.com, web.whatsapp.com

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Malicious

- **Confidence:** 99.0%

- **Recommended action:** publish\_block

- **Intent class:** Malware

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for block:** On every successful WhatsApp connection, the library waits 30 seconds then starts an automatic channel-joining routine., The routine downloads a maintainer-controlled list of newsletter IDs, follows each ID using the authenticated session, then mutes it; errors are silently ignored., The manifest also runs a preinstall script, although that script only checks the Node.js major version.

- **Evidence against:** The inspected preinstall code only rejects Node.js versions below 20 and performs no network or file mutation., The flagged media helper's network and process use supports caller-requested media upload/conversion, not the connection-triggered follow behavior.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to levvleys@2.0.22.

- Avoid installing levvleys@2.0.22. 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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.22/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@2.0.20
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.0.20
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@2.0.22/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@2.0.20
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.0.20
similarity = 1.000
summary = normalized source hash matched finalized malicious source
```

### 16. High: Known Malware Source Fingerprint Signature
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 94.0%
- **Path:** lib/Utils/messages-media.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.22/lib/Utils/messages-media.js>)

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 = 133ebe7c9cc47c2c
signatureType = suspicious_hashes
sourceLabel = final_verdict:malicious
matchedPackage = levvleys@2.0.20
matchedPath = lib/Utils/messages-media.js
matchedIdentity = npm:bGV2dmxleXM:2.0.20
similarity = 1.000
shingleOverlap = 66
summary = package final verdict is malicious
```

### 17. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/WABinary/constants.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/levvleys@2.0.22/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:** 2.0.22
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-10T16:43:08.467Z
- **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:** 7,455,676 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/levvleys/v/2.0.22>)
- [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/>)
