eusoft-eudic-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer zxp19821005 7 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from static-main.frdic.com (the official CDN of Eudic/Eusoft, the legitimate vendor of this Chinese dictionary software). The domain frdic.com is the known official domain for Eudic (French Dictionary/Eudic brand in China). The AppImage is extracted and its contents installed system-wide. While this is an unofficial AUR package wrapping a proprietary binary, the source host appears to be the legitimate vendor CDN rather than a personal/random host. However, there is no integrity verification beyond a sha256sum of the AppImage itself (which could be silently replaced at the URL since the version is embedded in a query parameter). The sha256sum provides some protection against substitution at download time. The LICENSE.html and wrapper script are listed in sources without URLs, meaning they must be pre-existing files in the AUR git repo — this is a minor concern but normal for AUR packages. Overall this is a standard proprietary binary packaging pattern for AUR: a prebuilt binary from what appears to be the official vendor CDN, with checksums. The medium rating is marginally justified due to the proprietary binary execution and the query-parameter versioning scheme, but this is a common and accepted AUR pattern for commercial software. Confidence is moderate because frdic.com is the legitimate Eudic vendor domain.

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:30 "${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://static-main.frdic.com/pkg/eudic.AppImage?v=${pkgver//./-}"
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from static-main.frdic.com (the official CDN of Eudic/Eusoft, the legitimate vendor of this Chinese dictionary software). The domain frdic.com is the known official domain for Eudic (French Dictionary/Eudic brand in China). The AppImage is extracted and its contents installed system-wide. While this is an unofficial AUR package wrapping a proprietary binary, the source host appears to be the legitimate vendor CDN rather than a personal/random host. However, there is no integrity verification beyond a sha256sum of the AppImage itself (which could be silently replaced at the URL since the version is embedded in a query parameter). The sha256sum provides some protection against substitution at download time. The LICENSE.html and wrapper script are listed in sources without URLs, meaning they must be pre-existing files in the AUR git repo — this is a minor concern but normal for AUR packages. Overall this is a standard proprietary binary packaging pattern for AUR: a prebuilt binary from what appears to be the official vendor CDN, with checksums. The medium rating is marginally justified due to the proprietary binary execution and the query-parameter versioning scheme, but this is a common and accepted AUR pattern for commercial software. Confidence is moderate because frdic.com is the legitimate Eudic vendor domain.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: zxp19821005 <zxp19821005 at 163 dot com> / ihipop <ihipop at gmail dot com>
2_pkgname=eudic
3pkgname="eusoft-${_pkgname}-bin"
4pkgver=11.6.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Authoritative English dictionary software, an essential tool for English learners.(Prebuilt version)权威的英语词典软件,英语学习者必备的工具."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://www.eudic.net/v4/en/app/eudic"
9license=('LicenseRef-custom')
10provides=("${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")
11conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}" "${_pkgname}")
12options=('!strip')
13depends=(
14 'nss'
15 'alsa-lib'
16 'libdrm'
17 'harfbuzz'
18 'mesa'
19 'libthai'
20 'fontconfig'
21)
22makedepends=(
23 'fuse2'
24)
25options=(
26 '!strip'
27 '!emptydirs'
28)
29source=(
30 "${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://static-main.frdic.com/pkg/eudic.AppImage?v=${pkgver//./-}"
31 "LICENSE.html"
32 "${pkgname%-bin}.sh"
33)
34sha256sums=('5b5e107fc99b700bfb519d2ecaf6877bbf117ceee7cc8f784c784e0be8b0a2a3'
35 '89862f4074e530896863738bf9d49c03c8d0cd0f6a543d4ccc1cdc53e8f83a24'
36 'f8da4fa48422d34fd5e2f8e1e87c9f52b66a7308a88855c39ae03599209dcbaf')
37prepare() {
38 sed -i -e "
39 s/@appname@/${pkgname%-bin}/g
40 s/@runname@/${_pkgname}/g
41 " "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-bin}.sh"
42 chmod +x "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
43 rm -rf "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/"
44 "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage" --appimage-extract > /dev/null
45 rm -f "${srcdir}"*.AppImage
46 sed -i -e "
47 s/\/usr\/share\/${_pkgname}\/AppRun/env QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx QT_QPA_PLATFORM=\"xcb\" ${pkgname%-bin}/g
48 s/Icon=com.eusoft.${_pkgname}/Icon=${pkgname%-bin}/g
49 " "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/default.desktop"
50 ln -sf "/usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx"*.so "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/plugins/platforminputcontexts/"
51}
52package() {
53 install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname%-bin}.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname%-bin}"
54 install -Dm755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname%-bin}"
55 cp -Pr --no-preserve=ownership "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/"* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname%-bin}"
56 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/default.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname%-bin}.desktop"
57 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/com.eusoft.${_pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname%-bin}.png"
58 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE.html" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
59}
60

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