{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including alipclutch-baileys.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-12108 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2026-12108 is a malicious package in alipclutch-baileys, published on 5 Aug 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-12108 is a malicious package: alipclutch-baileys (npm). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12108/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12108/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-12108","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12108/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-12108","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-7c8r-gc84-h9fv"],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"This Baileys fork modifies the outgoing WhatsApp rich-media send path in lib/Socket/messages-send.js so that every image and video preview payload carries a hardcoded `sourceUrl` attribute pointing to https://fiora.nixel.my.id/. The URL is not present as a string literal — it is assembled at runtime from a decimal-ASCII array via String.fromCharCode(104,116,116,112,115,58,47,47,102,105,111,114,97,46,110,105,120,101,108,46,109,121,46,105,100,47), and the associated internal key prefix uses unicode-escaped characters (`\\u004E\\u0049\\u0058\\u0045\\u004C_LATEX_` / `_HYPERLINK_` / `_CITATION_`) so the 'NIXEL'/'fiora' identifiers do not appear in plaintext anywhere else in the package. The advertised purpose of the library is to send WhatsApp messages on behalf of the caller; the caller does not opt into any attribution to fiora.nixel.my.id, and no configuration surface exposes this destination. The behavior is a covert attribution/traffic-attribution side-effect using the caller's WhatsApp session — no credential theft, environment scraping, remote code execution, filesystem persistence, or backdoor is present in this code path; recipients of the caller's messages who click the media preview would be directed to the author-controlled host. The obfuscation choices (charcode-assembled destination plus unicode-escaped brand token) are consistent with deliberate concealment of the destination from source review rather than incidental minification.\n\nAny computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be rotated immediately from a different computer. The package should be removed, but as full control of the computer may have been given to an outside entity, there is no guarantee that removing the package will remove all malicious software resulting from installing it.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in alipclutch-baileys (npm)","id":"MAL-2026-12108","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":[],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"alipclutch-baileys","purl":"pkg:npm/alipclutch-baileys","source":"MAL-2026-12108"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-08-05","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-12108/"}