feat(moderation): add campaign spam protection

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Summary

• add deterministic campaign-spam detection for the Chinese recruitment/fraud patterns observed across the Telegram network
• inspect message text, captions, contact cards, Telegram entities, inline buttons, linked domains, inline bots, account state, and normalized display names
• detect both fast bursts (3 authors / 2 chats / 10 minutes) and slow rotation (4 authors / 2 chats / 4 hours)
• keep new requested and direct joins behind a first-post gate, with read-only moderator review for risky profiles
• retain HMAC-protected evidence and expose actionable confirm/release reviews
• make review and BanAll operations serialized, fenced, reversible, and idempotent

What matches

• narrow campaign lures such as 来收米 日入9K, 上车吃肉🧧, 洗资, 聘群演, 注册送, and 两分钟一单
• the same lures in contact names or captions, including PG电子来注册送28U
• @mentions, text_mention, text_link, t.me/telegram.me URLs, inline buttons, and via_bot metadata
• reused normalized signatures across distinct accounts and chats, including messages spaced over four hours
• no-username Han-script profiles with several simultaneous campaign markers; these enter read-only review and are not automatically declined

What does not match by itself

• Chinese text, a phone prefix, a VoIP number, a high Telegram user ID, or profile metadata
• broad words such as 米, 学籍, 群演, or ordinary phrases such as 今晚一起吃肉吧
• an ordinary contact such as 王小明
• a warning that quotes a known malicious handle or domain
• repetition confined to one chat

Safety and operations

• protection and the first-post join gate are always active, with validated feature configuration in code and no new environment variables
• console logs expose classification reasons, admission outcomes, restrictions, reviews, bans, and dependency failures
• automatic BanAll requires an exact confirmed user/signature, confirmed bot identity, or a qualifying cross-account/cross-chat burst
• configured handles and domains are contextual evidence only; mentioning one does not prove sender ownership
• moderator callbacks require owner or direttivo; payloads are authenticated and encrypted
• Redis identifiers use versioned HMAC-SHA-256 fingerprints; review state and Telegram restrictions share a bounded 365-day lifecycle
• per-actor leases, ownership checks, atomic Lua updates, current-review fencing, and stable queue job IDs prevent concurrent or replayed moderation actions
• dependency failures fail open where safe; join requests receive fallback approval on actor lock contention

Configuration

Thresholds, restriction durations, and optional reviewed indicators live in src/middlewares/campaign-spam/runtime-config.ts. The bot uses its existing token for HMAC fingerprints. Managed groups need can_invite_users and can_restrict_members permissions.

Implementation plan: https://i7eeveujawt9.postplan.dev

Analysis source: https://gist.github.com/Invy55/edebd4fe8e8ac88eef94569e176d9977

Verification

• pnpm run test — 21 files, 154 tests
• pnpm run typecheck
• pnpm run build
• pnpm exec biome ci src tests .github tsconfig.json vitest.config.ts tsup.config.js biome.jsonc — 119 files
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Walkthrough

The campaign spam system now uses always-active classification, HMAC-based fingerprints, Redis-backed reputation, serialized moderation operations, authenticated review payloads, join-request enforcement, and idempotent BanAll execution. The bot receives join requests and registers the guard before auto-moderation.

Changes

Campaign classification and configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Classification and configuration contracts src/middlewares/campaign-spam/classifier.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/message-input.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/config.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/runtime-config.ts, src/env.ts, src/utils/crypto.ts, src/utils/telegram-restriction.ts, tests/campaign-spam-*	Campaign signals now include lures, contacts, links, bot metadata, slow-flood data, and risky profiles. Identifiers use versioned HMAC fingerprints. Configuration uses typed arrays and fixed runtime values. Tests cover normalization, fingerprints, validation, and extraction.

Redis reputation and concurrency

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Redis reputation and concurrency src/middlewares/campaign-spam/reputation.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/service.ts, tests/campaign-spam-reputation.test.ts	Reputation uses the v2 Redis namespace, hashed identifiers, atomic Lua operations, leases, heartbeats, pending states, review claims, slow-flood windows, and BanAll idempotency.

Guard and bot integration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guard and bot integration src/bot.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/index.ts, src/middlewares/message-trust.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/audit-history.ts, src/middlewares/auto-moderation-stack/index.ts, tests/campaign-spam-guard.test.ts, tests/campaign-spam-audit-history.test.ts	The bot receives join requests and runs CampaignSpamGuard before AutoModerationStack. Messages and joins use shared reputation, review fallback paths, pending-state permissions, audit history, telemetry, and cached trust inspection.

Moderator review and BanAll operations

Layer / File(s)

Summary

Moderator review and BanAll operations src/middlewares/campaign-spam/review-payload.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/review.ts, src/middlewares/campaign-spam/authorization.ts, src/lib/menu/index.ts, src/modules/tg-logger/index.ts, src/modules/moderation/ban-all.ts, src/modules/moderation/ban-all-flow.ts, tests/campaign-spam-review-payload.test.ts, tests/campaign-spam-authorization.test.ts, tests/ban-all-flow.test.ts

Review data is encrypted, authenticated, role-checked, and retained with a bounded TTL. Review actions claim operation tokens and verify ownership. BanAll jobs use stable parent and child IDs. Menu data can be deleted after callbacks.

Behavior documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Behavior documentation README.md	Documents always-active protection, detection signals, learning thresholds, hashed retention, join restrictions, review lifecycle, fingerprint rotation, and [CampaignSpam] logs.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Telegram
  participant CampaignSpamGuard
  participant CampaignReputation
  participant ReviewMenu
  participant TgLogger
  Telegram->>CampaignSpamGuard: Send message or join request
  CampaignSpamGuard->>CampaignReputation: Inspect signals and pending state
  CampaignReputation-->>CampaignSpamGuard: Return classification and operation state
  CampaignSpamGuard->>ReviewMenu: Create sealed review when review is required
  CampaignSpamGuard->>TgLogger: Send action-required review
  ReviewMenu->>CampaignReputation: Claim and execute moderator operation
  ReviewMenu->>TgLogger: Start idempotent BanAll when confirmed
  CampaignSpamGuard->>Telegram: Approve, restrict, mute, decline, or ban

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d1783

Campaign protection now changes admission and moderation behavior, but its documented activation contract conflicts with the stated default-off rollout model. Operators may expect protection to be disabled while users instead receive active restrictions or enforcement; the prior non-Latin spam coverage reduction also remains unresolved.

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In `@src/middlewares/campaign-spam/index.ts`:
- Around line 303-306: Update handleJoinRequest so failures from inspectJoin and
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Redone against the actual report: https://gist.github.com/Invy55/edebd4fe8e8ac88eef94569e176d9977

Implemented in 6062eeb.

Finding-by-finding disposition

1. Messages without mentions — fixed. High-precision lures can quarantine without @ or link evidence. The lexicon is intentionally narrow: 来收米 日入9K and 上车吃肉🧧 match; 今晚一起吃肉吧, 米, and 学籍 do not.
2. Contact cards — fixed. The classifier reads contact.first_name, contact.last_name, and the phone source, including captions. Phone evidence is HMAC-protected. Non-Latin or VoIP contacts are not suspicious by themselves.
3. Slow flood — fixed. A second window detects 4 distinct authors in 2 distinct chats over 4 hours. One-chat repetition remains quarantinable but cannot become an automatic network-wide BanAll.
4. Freshness bypass — fixed. Join-event freshness lasts 24 hours, while explicit first-post state lasts 7 days and also covers direct joins. Waiting ten minutes—or one day—does not clear the gate.
5. Display-name numerals and homoglyphs — fixed. Financial forms and Chinese numerals are normalized for campaign signatures. A no-username Han profile needs multiple current campaign markers and enters read-only review; it is never automatically declined from metadata alone.
6. Links, entities, captions, and bot loops — fixed. Detection covers url, text_link, mention, text_mention, t.me, telegram.me, www.t.me, /s/ links, tg://resolve, inline buttons, captions, and via_bot. Bot/self messages are excluded from actor learning.
7. Telegram ID > 8B — not adopted. Telegram documents user IDs as identifiers that may require up to 52 significant bits; it does not document 8B as an account-age boundary. A high ID alone is therefore not a moderation signal. Exact banned IDs and BanAll audit history are supported instead: https://core.telegram.org/bots/api and https://core.telegram.org/api/bots/ids

Additional correctness and security fixes

• Known handles/domains are contextual quarantine evidence, not proof that the sender owns the referenced infrastructure. Quoting one in a warning cannot cause BanAll.
• Risk-review members are read-only, so a contact card or other non-text payload cannot bypass the hold.
• Review callbacks require owner or direttivo; callback state is authenticated and encrypted.
• Only the latest review can confirm or release an actor. Per-actor leases renew during long work and fence Telegram side effects before and after each call.
• Join-request replays restore the stored restriction. Failed review delivery falls back to the ordinary first-post gate; a failed message-review delivery keeps a bounded mute.
• Reputation confirmation/reversal is atomic. BanAll child jobs use stable IDs and 30-day retention to survive retries without duplicate network actions.
• Review permissions, pending state, callback data, and replay protection are aligned to Telegram's temporary-restriction limit (365 days); configuration rejects 366 days.
• Campaign and existing auto-moderation share one cached trust lookup per update.
• Lock contention no longer runs a competing fail-open join mutation; the operation holding the actor lease remains authoritative.

Examples

Input	Result
来收米 日入9K	Quarantine: narrow campaign lure, no mention required
上车吃肉🧧	Quarantine
Contact PG电子来注册送28U	Quarantine and moderator review
Restricted first post with Han text and a text_link to t.me/...	Quarantine
Same campaign signature from 4 actors in 2 chats within 4h	Automatic BanAll in enforce
No-username profile 最低8Oo+ with combined campaign markers	Read-only moderator review; no automatic decline
大家好，我是交换生，请问今天的课程在哪个教室？	Allow
今晚一起吃肉吧	Allow
Established member shares contact 王小明	Allow
Warning that quotes a bad handle/domain	Allow absent other campaign signals
Slow repetition in one chat only	Never automatic network BanAll
User ID above 8B with no other evidence	Allow

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• independent Spec review against the gist: 0 findings; worst severity: none

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In `@src/middlewares/campaign-spam/classifier.ts`:
- Line 116: Update campaignIndicatorHash to use a deployment-secret keyed HMAC
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values for raw identifiers such as numeric user IDs, replacing them with
protected fingerprints. Version Redis key formats and configured fingerprints so
existing data can be migrated safely.

In `@src/middlewares/campaign-spam/review.ts`:
- Around line 49-56: Update the campaign-spam review callback flow around
claimBanAll and the Moderation.ban call to verify the callback sender has
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78-84: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep non-Latin moderation active in quarantine and enforce modes. NON_LATIN.REGEX matches Cyrillic and Arabic characters, but isCampaignCandidate requires Han text. Without an independent reputation ban, classifyCampaignMessage therefore allows non-Han messages. Because this condition skips nonLatinHandler in those modes, such spam can avoid muting. Add an explicit policy comment or register the handler for all modes.

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In `@src/middlewares/auto-moderation-stack/index.ts` around lines 78 - 84, Update
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quarantine and enforce modes, preferably by registering it for every
campaignSpamConfig.mode; preserve the existing filtered text/caption fork and
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In `@src/middlewares/campaign-spam/index.ts`:
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