brother-hll2375dw
The package downloads a Brother printer driver RPM from the official brother.com domain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the download host is not whitelisted but is plausibly official, and the payload is a driver package intended for installation, not an obfuscated or executable payload run during build.
Triggered rules
llm_review
The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a Brother printer driver RPM from the official brother.com domain, which is a legitimate source for this hardware; the download host is not whitelisted but is plausibly official, and the payload is a driver package intended for installation, not an obfuscated or executable payload run during build.
1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:12
source=(http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103533/hll2375dwpdrv-$pkgver-1.i386.rpm)
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: KopfKrieg <archlinux at absolem dot cc>
# Contributor: Daniel Wyatt <Daniel.Wyatt at gmail dot com>
# Contributor: André Fettouhi <a.fettouhi at gmail dot com>
pkgname=brother-hll2375dw
pkgver=4.0.0
pkgrel=2
pkgdesc='Brother HL-L2375DW CUPS driver'
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url='http://www.brother.com'
license=('GPL')
depends=('cups' 'perl')
source=(http://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf103533/hll2375dwpdrv-$pkgver-1.i386.rpm)
sha256sums=('ce32797b7f344d2cd7dec958a65a35887ab604a5e47f108de096e8caeb098a85')
package() {
# using /usr/share instead of /opt
mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share"
cp -R "$srcdir/opt/brother" "$pkgdir/usr/share"
sed -i 's|\\\/opt\\\/|\\\/usr\\\/|' "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper"
sed -i 's|\\\/opt\\\/|\\\/usr\\\/|' "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/lpdfilter"
# symlink for lpdwrapper so it correctly figures out the printer model from the path
install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/"
ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_HLL2375DW"
# symlink for the PPD
install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/cupswrapper/brother-HLL2375DW-cups-en.ppd" "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/"
# a couple architecture-specific symlinks
ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/$CARCH/brprintconflsr3" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/"
ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/$CARCH/rawtobr3" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/"
# symlink for inf because it tries to execute it there
ln -s "/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/inf" "$pkgdir/usr/share/brother/Printers/HLL2375DW/lpd/"
}
Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 00:27:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-16 00:03:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-15 00:25:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 00:27:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-13 00:19:54 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-12 00:25:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-11 00:19:22 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-10 00:22:44 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-09 00:04:09 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-08 00:18:08 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 00:30:15 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-06 00:17:06 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-05 00:16:27 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-04 00:03:13 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-03 00:15:47 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-02 00:02:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-01 00:11:19 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 00:19:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-30 00:04:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-29 00:29:17 | Low | 2 |