eductool-desktop-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer eductool 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from eductool.com via a tracking/redirect URL (query parameters suggest a redirect rather than a direct file path). The binary is a Tauri-based desktop application that will be executed on the user's system. While the sha256sum is present and the domain matches the official project URL, the use of a redirect/tracking URL rather than a stable, versioned direct download path is a supply-chain concern: the server could silently serve a different binary to the same URL at any time without changing the checksum in the PKGBUILD. The maintainer email matches the project domain, and the depends are consistent with a legitimate Tauri app. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — a prebuilt binary from what appears to be the vendor's own domain, but served via a mutable redirect URL with no reproducible build process. This fits the medium category: executed binary from a non-standard/mutable URL, even if the host is the apparent vendor.

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:13 source=("Eductool-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://eductool.com/linux-deb?utm_campaign=aur_archlinux&utm_medium=linuxdeb")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from eductool.com via a tracking/redirect URL (query parameters suggest a redirect rather than a direct file path). The binary is a Tauri-based desktop application that will be executed on the user's system. While the sha256sum is present and the domain matches the official project URL, the use of a redirect/tracking URL rather than a stable, versioned direct download path is a supply-chain concern: the server could silently serve a different binary to the same URL at any time without changing the checksum in the PKGBUILD. The maintainer email matches the project domain, and the depends are consistent with a legitimate Tauri app. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — a prebuilt binary from what appears to be the vendor's own domain, but served via a mutable redirect URL with no reproducible build process. This fits the medium category: executed binary from a non-standard/mutable URL, even if the host is the apparent vendor.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Eductool <eductool.com@gmail.com>
2pkgname=eductool-desktop-bin
3pkgver=0.13.0
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="EducTool is a comprehensive and modern school management software."
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://eductool.com"
8license=('MIT')
9depends=('webkit2gtk-4.1' 'gtk3' 'openssl') # Dépendances minimales requises par Tauri
10provides=("${pkgname%-bin}")
11conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
12
13source=("Eductool-desktop_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://eductool.com/linux-deb?utm_campaign=aur_archlinux&utm_medium=linuxdeb")
14
15# Commande 'updpkgsums' pour générer automatiquement ce hash
16sha256sums=('5c2050dc096a2c25e2fcb25ed169fe145e9972f37b213680be452f2a106097bd')
17
18package() {
19 # Extraire le contenu du paquet .deb (qui contient déjà l'arborescence Linux /usr/bin...)
20 # Les outils d'Arch Linux extraient automatiquement le .deb dans le dossier $srcdir
21 tar -xf "$srcdir/data.tar.xz" -C "$pkgdir/"
22}
23

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