sparsevlm

v0.1.0 suspicious
4.0
Medium Risk

Training-free visual token sparsification for vision-language models (ICML 2025)

🤖 AI Analysis

Final verdict: SUSPICIOUS

The package shows minimal risk in terms of network, shell, obfuscation, and credential risks but stands out due to its recent upload, single version release, and lack of maintainer information, raising concerns about potential supply-chain attack.

  • Recent upload with only one version released.
  • Lack of maintainer details.
Per-check LLM notes
  • Network: No network calls detected, which is normal if the package does not require internet access.
  • Shell: No shell execution patterns detected, indicating no immediate signs of executing system commands.
  • Obfuscation: No obfuscation patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Credentials: No credential harvesting patterns detected, indicating low risk.
  • Metadata: The package is suspicious due to its recent upload, single version release, and lack of maintainer details.

🔬 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

Email domain looks legitimate: gmail.com>

Suspicious Page Links

All external links appear legitimate

Git Repository History score 2.5

Git history flags: Repository has zero stars and zero forks

  • Repository has zero stars and zero forks
Maintainer History score 8.0

4 maintainer concern(s) found

  • Only one version has ever been released — brand new package
  • Package uploaded less than 24 hours ago (2026-06-04T21:36:42.000Z)
  • Author name is missing or very short
  • Author "" appears to have only 1 package on PyPI (new or inactive account)