---
canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob/v/5.33.6.md"
package: "whalibmob"
report_status: "published"
title: "whalibmob@5.33.6 npm security report"
verdict: "clean"
version: "5.33.6"
---

# whalibmob@5.33.6 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Allowed — no malicious behavior detected** — No malicious behavior detected. 14 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:** 5.33.6
- **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 concrete attack was identified. Inspected sensitive operations support WhatsApp registration, push authentication, session storage, and media processing.

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Recorded final verdict:** Clean
- **Recorded analysis confidence:** 87.0%
- **Started:** 2026-10-01T03:16:18.004Z
- **Finished:** 2026-10-01T03:18:01.953Z
- **Download time:** 780 ms
- **Static scan time:** 4049 ms
- **AI review time:** 99112 ms
- **Total time:** 103949 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 concrete attack was identified. Inspected sensitive operations support WhatsApp registration, push authentication, session storage, and media processing.

- **Trigger:** Caller-invoked library operations or explicit CLI execution; no installation lifecycle trigger was found.

- **Impact:** No confirmed covert credential export, remote payload execution, destructive mutation, or agent control hijacking was established.

- **Review source:** ai\_review

- **Reviewed:** 2026-10-01T03:18:01.953Z

### AI review details

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

- **Mechanism:** Protocol parsing, cryptographic token generation, service authentication, and media subprocesses perform package-related functions.

- **Rationale:** The inspected source supports the package's WhatsApp client functionality, and the flagged files contain protocol tables, registration cryptography, and push activation. No concrete malicious behavior or unresolved attack surface was established.

- **Network endpoints:** https://albert.apple.com/WebObjects/ALUnbrick.woa/wa/deviceActivation

### Review decision

- **Verdict:** Clean

- **Confidence:** 87.0%

- **Recommended action:** mark\_clean

- **Intent class:** Benign

- **False-positive risk:** Low

- **Evidence for AI clean decision:** package.json defines test scripts without installation hooks or a runtime self-dependency., lib/tokens.js maps protocol tokens to strings., lib/apns.js generates a new key pair for activation at Apple's service., lib/AndroidApk.js computes registration tokens from supplied APK material., lib/MediaThumbnail.js invokes media utilities through execFile with argument arrays and a timeout., index.js exposes the WhatsApp client and related library modules.

## Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to whalibmob@5.33.6.

- Review the evidence and your use of whalibmob@5.33.6 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@5.33.6/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@5.33.6/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@5.33.6/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@5.33.6/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@5.33.6/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: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/tokens.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.6/lib/tokens.js>)

Google API key in lib/tokens.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 13. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/fcm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.6/lib/fcm.js>)

Google API key in lib/fcm.js

Public source snippet (untrusted):

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

### 14. High: Secret Pattern
- **Category:** Secrets
- **Confidence:** 75.0%
- **Path:** lib/fcm.js
- **Public source:** [View source](<https://unpkg.com/whalibmob@5.33.6/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:** 5.33.6
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-10-01T03:15:28.072Z
- **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:** 2,882,888 bytes
- **Artifact signatures:** 1
- **Attestations:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/whalibmob/v/5.33.6>)
- [Repository](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob>)
- [Homepage](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob#readme>)
- [Issues](<https://github.com/Kunboruto20/whalibmob/issues>)
