---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob/v/5.33.1.md"
package: "whalibmob"
report_status: "published"
title: "whalibmob@5.33.1 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "5.33.1"
---

# whalibmob@5.33.1 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 15 low-signal pattern(s) reviewed.

- **Verdict:** Clean
- **Product-default install policy:** Allow
- **Firewall policy:** No policy match
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** None published
- **Selected version:** 5.33.1
- **Selected version is latest:** No
- **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: clean; recommendation: mark clean. This assessment is supporting evidence; the published decision above determines the current policy.

No malicious attack surface was identified in the inspected source.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 91.0%
- **Started:** 2026-09-28T05:12:57.104Z
- **Finished:** 2026-09-28T05:14:06.076Z
- **Download time:** 520 ms
- **Static scan time:** 3723 ms
- **AI review time:** 64722 ms
- **Total time:** 68972 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:** No malicious attack surface was identified in the inspected source.

- **Trigger:** No automatic install-time trigger was found.

- **Impact:** No confirmed unconsented execution, credential export, persistence, or destructive behavior was found.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-09-28T05:14:06.076Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** The inspected code implements protocol, push-token, APK-material, and command-line features.

- **Rationale:** Static inspection found no lifecycle hook or concrete malicious behavior. Network-capable features are aligned with the package's messaging-client functions and are activated through library or CLI use.

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 91.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** The manifest defines test scripts and no install lifecycle hook., The token module is a static WhatsApp protocol token table., The APNs code obtains a push token through its session connection and stores it in the supplied session store., The Android helper computes a registration token from supplied APK material., The CLI parses command-line arguments in its main function.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to whalibmob@5.33.1.

- Review the evidence and your use of whalibmob@5.33.1 before allowing it. Restrict the permissions described in this report.
- Choose an independently verified alternative or release. This report does not establish that other versions are safe.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. High: High Secret
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 85.0%
- **Path:** lib/tokens.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/tokens.js>)

Package contains a high-severity secret pattern.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 145
```

### 3. Medium: Dynamic Require
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** tools/diagnose-405.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/tools/diagnose-405.js>)

Package source references dynamic require/import behavior.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L22: 
L23: const path = require('path');
L24: const os   = require('os');
```

### 4. Low: Weak Crypto
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 64.0%
- **Path:** lib/Registration.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/Registration.js>)

Package source references weak cryptographic algorithms.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L3: const crypto = require('crypto');
L4: const https  = require('https');
L5: const tls    = require('tls');
...
L103: 
L104: tlsSocket.write(req);
L105: 
L106: const { status, body: bodyBuf } = await readHttpResponse(tlsSocket, path);
L107: const bodyStr = bodyBuf.toString('utf8');
L108: 
...
L498: 
L499: const mcc = (opts && opts.simMcc) || process.env.WA_SIM_MCC;
L500: const mnc = (opts && opts.simMnc) || process.env.WA_SIM_MNC;
```

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

Package source references network APIs.

### 6. Medium: Environment Vars
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references environment variables.

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

Package source references filesystem APIs.

### 8. High: Base64 Obscured Url
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 82.0%
- **Path:** lib/apns.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/apns.js>)

Source decodes a Base64-obscured HTTP endpoint at runtime.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
L33: 
L34: const https = require('https');
L35: const crypto = require('crypto');
...
L69: //
L70: // The private key is a PKCS#1 RSAPrivateKey, DER, base64. It is 1024-bit, which
L71: // is not a choice — it is the key that matches the leaf of the chain.
L72: 
L73: const FAIRPLAY_PRIVATE_KEY_PKCS1 = Buffer.from([
L74: '[redacted]',
...
L327: res.on('data', c => chunks.push(c));
L328: res.on('end', () => resolve({ status: res.statusCode || 0, body: Buffer.concat(chunks) }));
L329: res.on('error', reject);
```

### 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. High: Semantic Analysis Limited
- **Category:** Scanner Coverage
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Path:** lib/AndroidApk.js\#virtual:normalized:round1
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/AndroidApk.js%23virtual%3Anormalized%3Around1>)

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```text
stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 9
```

### 12. High: Previous Version Dangerous Delta
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 93.0%
- **Path:** cli.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/cli.js>)

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta
matchedPackage = whalibmob@5.33.5
matchedIdentity = npm:d2hhbGlibW9i:5.33.5
similarity = 0.991
summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file
```

### 13. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/tokens.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/tokens.js>)

Google API key in lib/tokens.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 145
```

### 14. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/fcm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/fcm.js>)

Google API key in lib/fcm.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 49
```

### 15. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/fcm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.1/lib/fcm.js>)

Google API key in lib/fcm.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

```javascript
patternName = google_api_key
severity = high
line = 57
```

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

- **Dependencies:** 10
- **Optional dependencies:** 3
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 2
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 13

### Published dependency entries
- @cacheable/node-cache 3.1.1 (Dependency)
- @noble/hashes ^1.7.2 (Dependency)
- async-mutex ^0.5.0 (Dependency)
- axios ^1.7.2 (Dependency)
- curve25519-js ^0.0.4 (Dependency)
- dotenv ^16.4.5 (Dependency)
- pino ^9.0.0 (Dependency)
- protobufjs ^6.11.4 (Dependency)
- uuid ^11.1.0 (Dependency)
- ws ^8.21.1 (Dependency)
- jimp ^1.6.0 (OptionalDependency)
- qrcode-terminal ^0.12.0 (OptionalDependency)
- socks ^2.8.9 (OptionalDependency)

## Package metadata
- **Package:** whalibmob
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.33.1
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-09-23T08:18:17.173Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-07-01T13:57:56.782Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-10-07T19:31:47.434Z
- **Known versions:** 40
- **Latest version:** 5.33.15
- **Appeal under review:** No
- **Description:** Node.js library for WhatsApp — register a number over SMS, or link as a companion by QR. Signal E2E encryption, media, groups, channels.
- **Author:** Kunboruto20
- **Maintainers:** boruto7777
- **Keywords:** whatsapp, whatsapp-api, whatsapp-bot, whatsapp-client, whatsapp-web, sms-registration, pairing-code, qr-code, companion, multi-device, signal-protocol, e2e
- **Runtime engines:** node: \>=18.0.0
- **Artifact files:** 114
- **Artifact unpacked size:** 2,875,956 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 2
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob/v/5.33.1>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob/issues>)
