adspower-global

maintainer MoonVlad · 4 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary .deb binary from version.adspower.net (the vendor's own distribution host) and installs it directly. This is a legitimate pattern for closed-source commercial software distributed via AUR (similar to google-chrome, zoom, slack, etc.), and adspower.net is the official AdsPower vendor domain. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates MITM risk. However, the binary is a closed-source antidetect browser — software specifically designed to spoof browser fingerprints for multi-account management — which is inherently high-trust code running with full user privileges. The supply-chain concern is real but not elevated beyond the standard risk of any prebuilt proprietary binary from a vendor host: if adspower.net is compromised or the vendor acts maliciously, arbitrary code executes. This is a genuine medium-severity concern (executed binary from a non-standard/unofficial-ecosystem host), not a false positive, but also not evidence of an active attack.

Triggered rules

MEDIUM source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:46 "AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb::https://version.adspower.net/software/linux-x64-global/${pkgver}/AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary .deb binary from version.adspower.net (the vendor's own distribution host) and installs it directly. This is a legitimate pattern for closed-source commercial software distributed via AUR (similar to google-chrome, zoom, slack, etc.), and adspower.net is the official AdsPower vendor domain. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates MITM risk. However, the binary is a closed-source antidetect browser — software specifically designed to spoof browser fingerprints for multi-account management — which is inherently high-trust code running with full user privileges. The supply-chain concern is real but not elevated beyond the standard risk of any prebuilt proprietary binary from a vendor host: if adspower.net is compromised or the vendor acts maliciously, arbitrary code executes. This is a genuine medium-severity concern (executed binary from a non-standard/unofficial-ecosystem host), not a false positive, but also not evidence of an active attack.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: MoonVlad
    
      2# Contributor: Daniel S. Palma <contato at danielspalma dot adm dot br>
    
      3# Contributor: Asuka Minato <i at asukaminato dot eu dot org>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=adspower-global
    
      6pkgver=8.4.3
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="AdsPower - Antidetect Browser for Multi-Account Management"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://www.adspower.com"
    
      11license=('LicenseRef-AdsPower-EULA')
    
      12makedepends=('binutils')
    
      13depends=(
    
      14    'alsa-lib'
    
      15    'at-spi2-core'
    
      16    'cairo'
    
      17    'dbus'
    
      18    'expat'
    
      19    'gcc-libs'
    
      20    'glib2'
    
      21    'glibc'
    
      22    'gtk3'
    
      23    'libcups'
    
      24    'libdrm'
    
      25    'libx11'
    
      26    'libxcb'
    
      27    'libxcomposite'
    
      28    'libxdamage'
    
      29    'libxext'
    
      30    'libxfixes'
    
      31    'libxkbcommon'
    
      32    'libxrandr'
    
      33    'mesa'
    
      34    'nspr'
    
      35    'nss'
    
      36    'pango'
    
      37)
    
      38optdepends=(
    
      39    'libnotify: desktop notifications'
    
      40    'libsecret: credential storage'
    
      41    'libappindicator-gtk3: tray icon support'
    
      42    'xdg-utils: open URLs in default browser'
    
      43)
    
      44options=('!strip')
    
      45source=(
    
      46    "AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb::https://version.adspower.net/software/linux-x64-global/${pkgver}/AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb"
    
      47)
    
      48noextract=("AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb")
    
      49sha256sums=('04fc2c27af2d7f3fbc6215335483798c0ed23bfe13e09f9427308a16d5f4a2b7')
    
      50
    
      51package() {
    
      52    cd "$srcdir"
    
      53    ar x "AdsPower-Global-${pkgver}-x64.deb"
    
      54    bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      55
    
      56    install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/bin/adspower-global" << 'EOF'
    
      57#!/bin/sh
    
      58exec "/opt/AdsPower Global/adspower_global" "$@"
    
      59EOF
    
      60
    
      61    for size in 16 32 48 64 128 256 512 1024; do
    
      62        if [[ -f "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/adspower_global.png" ]]; then
    
      63            mv "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/adspower_global.png" \
    
      64               "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/adspower-global.png"
    
      65        fi
    
      66    done
    
      67
    
      68    rm -f "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/adspower_global.desktop"
    
      69
    
      70    install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/adspower-global.desktop" << 'EOF'
    
      71[Desktop Entry]
    
      72Name=AdsPower Global
    
      73Comment=Antidetect Browser for Multi-Account Management
    
      74Exec=adspower-global %U
    
      75Icon=adspower-global
    
      76Terminal=false
    
      77Type=Application
    
      78Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
    
      79StartupWMClass=AdsPower Global
    
      80EOF
    
      81}
    
      82

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