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v0.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Differentiable Cryo-EM map fitting in JAX

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows low risks in terms of network usage, shell execution, obfuscation, and credential harvesting. However, the metadata risk score is high due to recent activity and a lack of maintainer history, raising suspicion about potential supply-chain attack vectors.

  • High metadata risk score
  • Lack of maintainer history
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal unless the package requires network functionality.
  • Shell: No shell execution detected, indicating no immediate risk from command injection or similar attacks.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: Highly suspicious due to recent activity and lack of maintainer history.

🔬 Heuristic Checks

✓ Outbound Network Calls

No suspicious network call patterns found

✓ Code Obfuscation

No obfuscation patterns detected

✓ Shell / Subprocess Execution

No shell execution patterns detected

✓ Credential Harvesting

No credential harvesting patterns detected

✓ Typosquatting

No typosquatting candidates detected

✓ Registered Email Domain

No author email provided

✓ Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

⚠ Git Repository History score 5.0

Git history flags: Repository created very recently: 0 day(s) ago (2026-06-05T00:59:46Z)

  • Repository created very recently: 0 day(s) ago (2026-06-05T00:59:46Z)
  • All 7 commits happened within 24 hours
⚠ Maintainer History score 6.0

3 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-05T02:44:24.000Z)
  • Author "George Elkins" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)

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