checkra1n-gui

maintainer bbaovanc · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official project's domain (checkra.in), which is not on the whitelist but plausibly legitimate; the binary is repackaged for Arch with minor patching, but no obfuscation or malicious behavior is present.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding 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 prebuilt .deb from the official project's domain (checkra.in), which is not on the whitelist but plausibly legitimate; the binary is repackaged for Arch with minor patching, but no obfuscation or malicious behavior is present.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:12 source=("https://assets.checkra.in/debian/${_debname}")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: BBaoVanC <bbaovanc@bbaovanc.com>
    
      2pkgname=checkra1n-gui
    
      3pkgver=0.12.4
    
      4pkgrel=7
    
      5pkgdesc="checkra1n is a semi-tethered jailbreak based on the checkm8 bootrom exploit. (GUI version)"
    
      6license=('unknown')
    
      7url="https://checkra.in"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9depends=(libimobiledevice libirecovery-1.0-3 libplist libtvcontrol ncurses5-compat-libs gtk3)
    
      10makedepends=(binutils patchelf tar)
    
      11_debname="checkra1n_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      12source=("https://assets.checkra.in/debian/${_debname}")
    
      13sha256sums=('90d3a5fb16e86c488344cfa8cec96e4592aa4d7f8932da99d4b5a052fdb10a1a')
    
      14
    
      15options=(!strip) # for some reason, checkra1n segfaults if the binary is stripped
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18    ar x ${_debname}
    
      19    tar -xf data.tar.xz
    
      20
    
      21    # > However since the only ABI breaking change in libplist-2.0.so.4 is in plist_from_memory
    
      22    # > which isn't used by checkra1n (see objdump -T path/to/checkra1n | grep plist), it should be
    
      23    # > safe to only use libplist-2.0.so.4.
    
      24    # https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/checkra1n-gui#comment-963486
    
      25    patchelf --replace-needed libplist-2.0.so.3 libplist-2.0.so.4 usr/bin/checkra1n
    
      26
    
      27    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/bin
    
      28    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
    
      29    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/checkra1n
    
      30    mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons
    
      31
    
      32    install -m 0755 usr/bin/checkra1n ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/checkra1n-gui
    
      33    install -m 0644 usr/share/doc/checkra1n/changelog.gz ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/checkra1n/changelog.gz
    
      34    cp -rT usr/share/icons/ ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons
    
      35
    
      36    install -m 0644 usr/share/applications/checkra1n.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/checkra1n.desktop
    
      37    sed -i 's/Exec=checkra1n --gui/Exec=checkra1n-gui/' ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/checkra1n.desktop
    
      38    sed -i 's/TryExec=checkra1n/TryExec=checkra1n-gui/' ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/checkra1n.desktop
    
      39}
    
      40

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2