beeper-bin

maintainer Sanitary4788 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised; the AppImage is extracted and modified, but no remote code execution or data exfiltration is evident.

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:21 source=('Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage::https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage')

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised; the AppImage is extracted and modified, but no remote code execution or data exfiltration is evident.

PKGBUILD:60 eval "$_oldnull"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Serph91P <aur+beeper-bin@users.noreply.github.com>
    
      2# Generated-maintenance note: scripts/aur_update.py updates pkgver, source and sha256sums.
    
      3
    
      4_pkgname='beeper'
    
      5_install_path='opt'
    
      6
    
      7pkgname='beeper-bin'
    
      8pkgver=4.3.0
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10epoch=1
    
      11pkgdesc='The ultimate messaging app'
    
      12depends=('libappindicator' 'libnotify' 'libsecret' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
    
      13makedepends=('asar')
    
      14url='https://www.beeper.com/beta'
    
      15license=('LicenseRef-beeper')
    
      16arch=('x86_64')
    
      17options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      18conflicts=('beeper' 'beeper-v4-bin')
    
      19provides=('beeper')
    
      20
    
      21source=('Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage::https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage')
    
      22sha256sums=('fc326640c406cd916738d8d067d7ebf4d0ed1aff4a83c8c5f1a07300e5320948')
    
      23
    
      24build() {
    
      25  local _filename="Beeper-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage"
    
      26
    
      27  chmod +x "$srcdir/$_filename"
    
      28  "$srcdir/$_filename" --appimage-extract
    
      29
    
      30  sed -Ei     's@^(if \[ -z "\$APPDIR" \] ; then)$@APPDIR="/'"$_install_path"'/beeper"\n\1@'     "$srcdir/squashfs-root/AppRun"
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33_package_beeper() {
    
      34  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/squashfs-root/AppRun" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/beeper"
    
      35
    
      36  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/$_install_path"
    
      37  mv "$srcdir/squashfs-root" "$pkgdir/$_install_path/beeper"
    
      38
    
      39  rm -f "$pkgdir/$_install_path/beeper/beepertexts.desktop"
    
      40
    
      41  local _resources_dir="$pkgdir/$_install_path/beeper/resources"
    
      42  local _app_dir="$_resources_dir/app"
    
      43  local _asar_path="$_resources_dir/app.asar"
    
      44  local _main_dir="$_app_dir/build/main"
    
      45  local _linux_config_file
    
      46  local _main_mjs_files
    
      47  local _oldnull
    
      48
    
      49  if [ ! -d "$_app_dir" ] && [ -f "$_asar_path" ]; then
    
      50    asar extract "$_asar_path" "$_app_dir" || return 1
    
      51    rm -f "$_asar_path"
    
      52  fi
    
      53
    
      54  _linux_config_file=""
    
      55
    
      56  if [ -d "$_main_dir" ]; then
    
      57    _oldnull=$(shopt -p nullglob || true)
    
      58    shopt -s nullglob
    
      59    _main_mjs_files=("$_main_dir"/*.mjs)
    
      60    eval "$_oldnull"
    
      61
    
      62    if [ -n "${_main_mjs_files[*]}" ]; then
    
      63      _linux_config_file=$(grep -lE 'export\{[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ as registerLinuxConfig\};' "${_main_mjs_files[@]}" 2>/dev/null | head -n1)
    
      64    fi
    
      65  fi
    
      66
    
      67  if [ -z "$_linux_config_file" ] && [ -d "$_app_dir" ]; then
    
      68    _linux_config_file=$(grep -R -lE 'export\{[a-zA-Z0-9_]+ as registerLinuxConfig\};' "$_app_dir" --include='*.mjs' 2>/dev/null | head -n1)
    
      69  fi
    
      70
    
      71  if [ -z "$_linux_config_file" ]; then
    
      72    echo "error: could not find file exporting registerLinuxConfig in $_app_dir" >&2
    
      73    return 1
    
      74  fi
    
      75
    
      76  sed -i 's/export{[a-zA-Z0-9_]* as registerLinuxConfig};/const noopFunc=function(){};export{noopFunc as registerLinuxConfig};/' "$_linux_config_file"
    
      77}
    
      78
    
      79package() {
    
      80  install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/beeper.desktop" << END
    
      81[Desktop Entry]
    
      82Type=Application
    
      83Name=Beeper
    
      84GenericName=Unified Messenger
    
      85Comment=$pkgdesc
    
      86Exec=beeper --no-sandbox %U
    
      87Icon=beepertexts
    
      88Terminal=false
    
      89StartupWMClass=BeeperTexts
    
      90X-AppImage-Version=$pkgver
    
      91MimeType=x-scheme-handler/beeper;x-scheme-handler/matrix;x-scheme-handler/element;
    
      92Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;
    
      93END
    
      94
    
      95  install -Dm644     "$srcdir/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/beepertexts.png"     -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps"
    
      96
    
      97  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/squashfs-root/LICENSE.electron.txt" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
    
      98  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/squashfs-root/LICENSES.chromium.html" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
    
      99
    
      100  _package_beeper
    
      101
    
      102  chmod -R u+rwX,go+rX,go-w "$pkgdir"
    
      103}
    
      104

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-31 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 _install_path='opt'
 
 pkgname='beeper-bin'
-pkgver=4.2.1004
+pkgver=4.3.0
 pkgrel=1
 epoch=1
 pkgdesc='The ultimate messaging app'
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@
 conflicts=('beeper' 'beeper-v4-bin')
 provides=('beeper')
 
-source=('Beeper-4.2.1004-x86_64.AppImage::https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.2.1004-x86_64.AppImage')
-sha256sums=('266783fe0541763e936fb63d2f8dd5d96a05830df2f6ad718888c5ef6dc99ae4')
+source=('Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage::https://beeper-desktop.download.beeper.com/builds/Beeper-4.3.0-x86_64.AppImage')
+sha256sums=('fc326640c406cd916738d8d067d7ebf4d0ed1aff4a83c8c5f1a07300e5320948')
 
 build() {
   local _filename="Beeper-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 05:17:13	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 05:27:22	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2