cropbox

HIGH

maintainer marchos1as 0 votes scanned 2026-10-16 00:12:47.406154

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Why flagged

Package is named 'cropbox' but installs Dropbox under a deceptive alias - a clear masquerade/typosquat attack; additionally, the unreviewable cropbox.install hook could execute arbitrary code at install time, and the package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary daemon that runs persistently via systemd.

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:28 "https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.asc})

Low Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

High AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed it and judged it HIGH (confidence 85%): Package is named 'cropbox' but installs Dropbox under a deceptive alias - a clear masquerade/typosquat attack; additionally, the unreviewable cropbox.install hook could execute arbitrary code at install time, and the package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary daemon that runs persistently via systemd.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Massimiliano Torromeo <massimiliano.torromeo@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Chih-Hsuan Yen <yan12125@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Tom < tomgparchaur at gmail dot com >
    
      4# Contributor: David Manouchehri <d@32t.ca>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=cropbox
    
      7pkgver=272.4.3798
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="A free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily."
    
      10arch=("x86_64")
    
      11url="https://www.dropbox.com"
    
      12license=(custom:Dropbox)
    
      13depends=("libsm" "libxslt" "libxmu" "libxdamage" "libxrender" "libxxf86vm" "libxcomposite" "fontconfig" "dbus")
    
      14makedepends=("gendesk")
    
      15optdepends=(
    
      16  'ufw-extras: ufw rules for dropbox'
    
      17  'perl-file-mimeinfo: opening dropbox folder on some desktop environments'
    
      18  'xdg-utils: for "Launch Dropbox Website" and file manager integration'
    
      19  'libappindicator-gtk3: make tray icons themed under some desktop environments like KDE plasma'
    
      20)
    
      21options=('!strip')
    
      22
    
      23# https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0eu2dsn07fy5k0gt5fy74/AABbXqKHbY_mobVJhqgfOXYja/Glyph/Dropbox/SVG/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg
    
      24source=("DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg"
    
      25        "terms.txt"
    
      26        "dropbox.service"
    
      27        "dropbox@.service"
    
      28        "https://edge.dropboxstatic.com/dbx-releng/client/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver.tar.gz"{,.asc})
    
      29
    
      30sha256sums=('9ba76205ec5838db85d822f23cfd7e2112fd2757e8031d8374709f102143c548'
    
      31            '1610ff57e8b20ee7a37682c3cc505da4ddc9cec2bd7234c90c0f2073657521d2'
    
      32            '6c67a9c8c95c08fafafd2f1d828074b13e3347b05d2e4f4bf4e62746115d7477'
    
      33            '98581e65a91ae1f19ed42edcdaaa52e102298b5da0d71b50089393d364474d3d'
    
      34            'bf0b0945ace2c02fe790189fece8a2fa9c3a9c7e9fef879eb34b01098a957a01'
    
      35            'SKIP')
    
      36# The PGP key fingerprint should match the one on https://www.dropbox.com/help/desktop-web/linux-commands
    
      37validpgpkeys=(
    
      38  '1C61A2656FB57B7E4DE0F4C1FC918B335044912E'  # Dropbox Automatic Signing Key <linux@dropbox.com>
    
      39)
    
      40
    
      41prepare() {
    
      42  gendesk --pkgname="$pkgname" --pkgdesc="$pkgdesc" --categories=Network -f PKGBUILD
    
      43}
    
      44
    
      45package() {
    
      46  install -d "$pkgdir"/opt
    
      47  cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir"/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-$pkgver "$pkgdir"/opt/dropbox
    
      48  chmod 755 "$pkgdir"/opt/dropbox/*.so
    
      49
    
      50  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      51  ln -s ../../opt/dropbox/dropbox "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/dropbox
    
      52
    
      53  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.desktop -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
    
      54  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/DropboxGlyph_Blue.svg "$pkgdir"/usr/share/pixmaps/dropbox.svg
    
      55  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/terms.txt -t "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
    
      56  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/user
    
      57  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/dropbox@.service -t "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system
    
      58}
    
      59
    
      60pkgrel=2
    
      61install="$pkgname.install"
    
      62

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-16 00:12:47	High	3
2026-10-15 00:28:05	High	3
2026-10-14 01:22:29	High	3
2026-10-14 01:18:27	Medium	2