{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00010807","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in wailib (npm)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-w72m-vjx4-9m36"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for wailib. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-1374461069ac8603cbd1fa4802b82405"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-1374461069ac8603cbd1fa4802b82405","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w72m-vjx4-9m36","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-w72m-vjx4-9m36","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:24.290Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-1374461069ac8603cbd1fa4802b82405"],"technology":"wailib","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"This package is a fork of the Baileys WhatsApp Web library (npm) and belongs to the \"PhantomSub\" family described by OX Security in September 2026: the publisher injected code that, without the installer asking, uses the installer's own authenticated WhatsApp session to subscribe that account to WhatsApp Channels (newsletters) the publisher chose, by sending the WhatsApp `w:mex` FOLLOW query (query_id 7871414976211147) for each target channel JID.\n\n`package/lib/Socket/messages-recv.js` lines 45-72 define a char-code decoder (`qvnr`) and use it to build two channel JIDs, `120363428355171197@newsletter` and `120363425751417260@newsletter`, and the method names `newsletterFollow` (`pzha`, cited line 62: `const pzha = qvnr(`) and `newsletterMute` (`wjcf`, line 68), so neither the JIDs nor the method names appear in the source as text. Lines 1125-1140, in the `connection.update` handler, wait 30 seconds after the connection opens and then, for each JID, call `sock[pzha` to follow the channel and, 3 seconds later, `sockwjcf` to mute it, so the victim is not notified of the channel's posts. There is no opt-out. The README (Portuguese) states \"Sem auto-follow de canais — removi","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.0"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T23:18:22.388Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-02T06:31:14.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-10-02T06:31:07.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T23:13:24.290Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"40769"}