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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ranux-dev/v/5.0.0"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ranux-dev/v/5.0.0.md"
package: "ranux-dev"
report_status: "published"
title: "ranux-dev@5.0.0 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.0.0"
---

# ranux-dev@5.0.0 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:** 5.0.0
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14259 confirms this npm version as malicious. package.json declares the dependency \`@whiskeysockets/baileys\` but resolves it from \`github:rcedubot/X\` instead of the npm registry. Installing ranux-dev pulls arbitrary, unpinned, mutable code from that personal GitHub account under the name of a widely-used WhatsApp Web library, and that code runs in the installer's Node process with full WhatsApp session and credential access. Every shipped source file (index.js,...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** external-osv-malicious-v1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T05:40:04.198Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T05:40:04.198Z
- **Download time:** Not available
- **Static scan time:** Not available
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** Not available

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. High: Osv Malicious Advisory
- **Category:** External Intel
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

package.json declares the dependency \`@whiskeysockets/baileys\` but resolves it from \`github:rcedubot/X\` instead of the npm registry. Installing ranux-dev pulls arbitrary, unpinned, mutable code from that personal GitHub account under the name of a widely-used WhatsApp Web library, and that code runs in the installer's Node process with full WhatsApp session and credential access. Every shipped source file (index.js, config.js, database.js, tenantManager.js, command.js, lib/\*.js, plugins/\*.js) is heavily obfuscated with obfuscator.io-style transforms and an RC4-over-base64 string decoder, so endpoints, credentials, and control flow cannot be reviewed statically. config.js exports a frozen \`SECRETS\` object with hardcoded encrypted strings alongside \`API\_ENDPOINTS\` and \`NETWORK\_CONFIG\` (MongoDB-shaped) constants. The combination — dependency substitution of a popular WhatsApp library from an unaffiliated GitHub account, uniform obfuscation across the tarball, a multi-tenant WhatsApp/MongoDB architecture, and shipped hardcoded credential-shaped constants — matches the session-harvester pattern in which installer WhatsApp sessions and tenant data are funneled to an author-controlled backend.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** No

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** ranux-dev
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.0
- **Version published:** 2026-08-15T09:39:54.977Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T05:40:04.198Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T05:40:04.198Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 5.0.0
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/ranux-dev/v/5.0.0>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14259>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/ranux-dev/v/5.0.0>)