brother-hll5210dw
Downloads a prebuilt i386 .deb from download.brother.com, which is Brother's official download infrastructure; the checksum is provided and matches, so this is a standard vendor-binary printer driver package with no obfuscation or exfiltration concerns.
Triggered rules
llm_review
The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 85%): Downloads a prebuilt i386 .deb from download.brother.com, which is Brother's official download infrastructure; the checksum is provided and matches, so this is a standard vendor-binary printer driver package with no obfuscation or exfiltration concerns.
1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17
source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105786/${_deb}")
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: Borislav Borisov <borislav.borisov@yahoo.com>
pkgname=brother-hll5210dw
pkgver=4.0.3
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Brother HL-L5210DW CUPS printer driver"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://support.brother.com/g/b/producttop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=hll5210dw_us_eu_as"
license=('custom')
depends=('cups' 'perl')
options=('!debug')
_drivername=hll5210dwpdrv
_debrel=2
_deb="${_drivername}-${pkgver}-${_debrel}.i386.deb"
source=("https://download.brother.com/welcome/dlf105786/${_deb}")
sha256sums=('e826f47b0b261eb20047a64ec9e506f0ad9e67187cff21a76e1924ddaf293f48')
package() {
cd "$srcdir"
# Extract Debian package
bsdtar -xf "$_deb"
# Extract filesystem payload
bsdtar -xJf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
# Keep only the native architecture binaries
rm -rf "$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/lpd/i686"
# Remove Debian/LPR-specific setup helper
rm -f "$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/inf/setupPrintcap"
# Remove unused spool directory
rm -rf "$pkgdir/var"
# Select native binaries
ln -sf \
"$CARCH/rawtobr3" \
"$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/lpd/rawtobr3"
ln -sf \
"$CARCH/brprintconflsr3" \
"$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/lpd/brprintconflsr3"
# Driver configuration links
ln -sf \
/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/inf/brHLL5210DWrc \
"$pkgdir/etc/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/inf/brHLL5210DWrc"
ln -sf \
/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/inf/brHLL5210DWrc \
"$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/lpd/inf/brHLL5210DWrc"
# CUPS filter
install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter"
ln -sf \
/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/cupswrapper/lpdwrapper \
"$pkgdir/usr/lib/cups/filter/brother_lpdwrapper_HLL5210DW"
# CUPS PPD
install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model"
ln -sf \
/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/cupswrapper/brother-HLL5210DW-cups-en.ppd \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/cups/model/brother-HLL5210DW-cups-en.ppd"
# License
install -Dm644 \
"$pkgdir/opt/brother/Printers/HLL5210DW/LICENSE_ENG.txt" \
"$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
}
Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-03 00:23:04 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-02 00:00:32 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-10-01 00:02:06 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-30 00:20:07 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-29 00:07:46 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-28 00:28:32 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-27 00:07:07 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-26 00:12:15 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-25 00:03:36 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-24 00:24:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-23 00:28:13 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-22 00:15:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-21 00:26:32 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-20 00:25:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-19 00:25:36 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-18 00:17:11 | Low | 2 |
| 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 |