gba-graphics-editor

MEDIUM

maintainer Sterophonick 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (inside a password-protected 7z archive) from hackromtools.info, which is a third-party, non-official host with no verifiable upstream provenance. The password ('HackRomTools') is trivial and adds no real integrity protection. Only the archive itself has an md5sum; the wrapper shell script, .desktop file, and icon all have 'SKIP' checksums, meaning the locally-supplied launcher script is not integrity-checked. The Windows binary is then run under Wine. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: if hackromtools.info is compromised or the binary is replaced, users would execute arbitrary Windows code under Wine. However, there is no evidence of active malice — this appears to be a legitimate ROM-hacking tool distributed from its author's own site, which is a common pattern for niche GBA homebrew/hacking utilities. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

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:10 source=(https://www.hackromtools.info/downloads/gba/HackRomTools%20-%20GBAGraphicsEditor.7z

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 Windows executable (inside a password-protected 7z archive) from hackromtools.info, which is a third-party, non-official host with no verifiable upstream provenance. The password ('HackRomTools') is trivial and adds no real integrity protection. Only the archive itself has an md5sum; the wrapper shell script, .desktop file, and icon all have 'SKIP' checksums, meaning the locally-supplied launcher script is not integrity-checked. The Windows binary is then run under Wine. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: if hackromtools.info is compromised or the binary is replaced, users would execute arbitrary Windows code under Wine. However, there is no evidence of active malice — this appears to be a legitimate ROM-hacking tool distributed from its author's own site, which is a common pattern for niche GBA homebrew/hacking utilities. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Sterophonick
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=gba-graphics-editor
    
      4_pkgname='gba-graphics-editor'
    
      5pkgver=v2.3
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='Scan compressed and uncompress graphics from GBA ROMs.'
    
      8arch=(x86_64 i686)
    
      9depends=('wine' 'winetricks')
    
      10source=(https://www.hackromtools.info/downloads/gba/HackRomTools%20-%20GBAGraphicsEditor.7z
    
      11        gba-graphics-editor
    
      12        gba-graphics-editor.desktop
    
      13        gba-graphics-editor.png)
    
      14md5sums=('100653275bbf916531a0b206f9eb33d6'
    
      15         'SKIP'
    
      16         'SKIP'
    
      17         'SKIP')
    
      18
    
      19prepare() {
    
      20  7z x "HackRomTools%20-%20GBAGraphicsEditor.7z" -o$srcdir -pHackRomTools
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24  cd $srcdir
    
      25  install -Dm755 gba-graphics-editor $pkgdir/usr/bin/gba-graphics-editor
    
      26  install -Dm644 gba-graphics-editor.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/gba-graphics-editor.desktop
    
      27  install -Dm644 gba-graphics-editor.png $pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/gba-graphics-editor.png
    
      28  
    
      29  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/gba-graphics-editor
    
      30
    
      31  install -Dm644 "HackRomTools - GBA Graphics Editor"/* $pkgdir/usr/share/gba-graphics-editor
    
      32}
    
      33

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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