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Malware

@dreamguyxeon/baileyx

GHSA-8x56-j9vw-j3gq

Malicious code in @dreamguyxeon/baileyx (npm)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

npm/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx is a Baileys WhatsApp Web API fork with the same undisclosed remote-controlled consentless newsletter auto-follow as related DGXeon packages. In lib/Socket/newsletter.js, after session setup it waits 120 seconds, fetches https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DGXeon13/strings/refs/heads/main/strings.json, and silently FOLLOWs listed newsletter JIDs. Trigger is runtime (makeNewsletterSocket), not install. It also fetches Baileys version metadata from DGXeon13/dgxeon-soket and aliases libsignal to npm:@dgxeon13/[email protected] (a separate package that patches @whiskeysockets/baileys). Independently corroborated by LPM Firewall's public malicious report for 2.0.0. Related OSV entries: dgxeon-baileys (MAL-2026-2252), baileys-dgxeon (MAL-2025-806). Tarball sha256 for 5.0.0: 0dffc5f0c8fd53b520c26de8788e6eafb1d939070a698e39f9f9853f42e6f7db.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/d26b2fc9f93809d54adfeb36ac5579fcda97c46d/osv/malicious/npm/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx/MAL-2026-13930.json))

**References:**
- https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx/v/2.0.0
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/d26b2fc9f93809d54adfeb36ac5579fcda97c46d/osv/malicious/npm/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx/MAL-2026-13930.json
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-806
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-2252
- https://safedep.io/malicious-baileys-npm-whatsapp-campaign
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/9ed081e7b0247038841ccd64abfe7655c55246f1/osv/malicious/npm/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx/MAL-2026-13930.json
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@dreamguyxeon/baileyx/v/1.0.0

Compromised versions (1)

  • = 1.0.0

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.