AI Analysis
Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS
The package exhibits significant risks due to the use of shell execution and potential obfuscation techniques, which cannot be fully justified based on the provided information.
- High shell risk due to use of shell=True
- Potential obfuscation through base64 and zlib
Per-check LLM notes
- Network: The use of an HTTP client might be legitimate but requires verification of its intended use to rule out unauthorized data transmission.
- Shell: Executing commands via shell=True is risky and can potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, indicating a high risk unless justified by the package's documented functionality.
- Obfuscation: The use of base64 and zlib for decoding suggests some level of obfuscation, but it could also be used for legitimate purposes such as handling compressed or encoded data.
- Credentials: No clear patterns indicative of credential harvesting were detected.
- Metadata: The maintainer has a new or inactive account and lacks a GitHub repository, raising some suspicion but not conclusive evidence of malintent.
Heuristic Checks
Outbound Network Calls
score 1.5
Found 1 network call pattern(s)
Js.setdefault('httpx_client', httpx.Client()) try: if str(whatever).starts
Code Obfuscation
score 6.0
Found 3 obfuscation pattern(s)
compressed_bytes = base64.b64decode(input) pbar.update(1)image_data = base64.b64decode(base64_str) pil_im = PIL_Image.open(BytesIO(decompressed = zlib.decompress(compressed_bytes) pbar.update(1)
Shell / Subprocess Execution
score 4.0
Found 2 shell execution pattern(s)
try: result = subprocess.run( cmd, shell=True,cmd, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=
Credential Harvesting
No credential harvesting patterns detected
Typosquatting
No typosquatting candidates detected
Registered Email Domain
Email domain looks legitimate: blicktek.com>
Suspicious Page Links
All external links appear legitimate
Git Repository History
No GitHub repository linked
No GitHub repository link found
Maintainer History
score 4.0
2 maintainer concern(s) found
Author name is missing or very shortAuthor "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)
Known CVE Vulnerabilities
No known vulnerabilities found in OSV database.
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