f4transkript

MEDIUM
maintainer coldBug 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from download.audiotranskription.de, which is the official vendor's download subdomain (audiotranskription.de is the project's own domain, matching the url= field). The binary is copied directly into /usr/bin without any wrapper or script manipulation. This is a legitimate vendor-distributed closed-source application installed as a prebuilt binary — a common AUR pattern for proprietary software. The sha256sum is pinned, providing integrity verification against accidental corruption or CDN tampering. However, the binary is executed code from a closed-source vendor with no source available for audit, and there is no GPG signature verification. The risk is the standard supply-chain concern for any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's download server is compromised or the vendor acts maliciously, the binary runs with user privileges. This is a genuine medium-severity concern (prebuilt binary from a non-open-source host), not a false positive, but it is also not an active attack — it is the normal risk profile for proprietary AUR packages.

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:11 source=('https://download.audiotranskription.de/f4transkript-7.0.6-linux.tar.gz')
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from download.audiotranskription.de, which is the official vendor's download subdomain (audiotranskription.de is the project's own domain, matching the url= field). The binary is copied directly into /usr/bin without any wrapper or script manipulation. This is a legitimate vendor-distributed closed-source application installed as a prebuilt binary — a common AUR pattern for proprietary software. The sha256sum is pinned, providing integrity verification against accidental corruption or CDN tampering. However, the binary is executed code from a closed-source vendor with no source available for audit, and there is no GPG signature verification. The risk is the standard supply-chain concern for any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's download server is compromised or the vendor acts maliciously, the binary runs with user privileges. This is a genuine medium-severity concern (prebuilt binary from a non-open-source host), not a false positive, but it is also not an active attack — it is the normal risk profile for proprietary AUR packages.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: coldBug <coldBug at e.mail dot de>
2
3pkgname=f4transkript
4pkgver=7.0.6
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Speeds up your transcription process"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="www.audiotranskription.de"
9license=('')
10depends=('vlc' 'libusb' 'gcc-libs')
11source=('https://download.audiotranskription.de/f4transkript-7.0.6-linux.tar.gz')
12sha256sums=('0ae4385851ebc45ce9b256b6c8e8e4de79225a4c65b05fcc163a4953b94f65e0')
13
14package ()
15{
16 mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/
17 cp ${srcdir}/f4transkript/64-bit/f4transkript ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/f4transkript
18}
19
20

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Medium 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Medium 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Medium 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Medium 2
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Medium 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Medium 2
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Medium 2
2026-09-10 00:22:44 Medium 2
2026-09-09 00:04:09 Medium 2
2026-09-08 00:18:08 Medium 2
2026-09-07 00:30:15 Medium 2
2026-09-06 00:17:06 Medium 2
2026-09-05 00:16:27 Medium 2
2026-09-04 00:03:13 Medium 2
2026-09-03 00:15:47 Medium 2
2026-09-02 00:02:31 Medium 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Medium 2
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Medium 2
2026-08-30 00:04:14 Medium 2
2026-08-29 00:29:17 Medium 2

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