hackhands-bin

maintainer ckpcw · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from packagecloud.io (a legitimate third-party package hosting service used by many vendors) for the hackhands desktop application. The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any source build. While packagecloud.io is a well-known hosting platform and the SHA256 checksum is pinned, this is still a prebuilt binary from a non-distro host that gets executed on the user's system. The hackhands.com service appears to be defunct/acquired, raising questions about ongoing maintenance and whether the package host remains under the original vendor's control. The core concern is a prebuilt binary installed from a third-party host — this is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern (not a false positive), as the binary could contain arbitrary code and the vendor's continued control of the packagecloud.io repository is uncertain for a potentially defunct service.

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:25 source_x86_64=("https://packagecloud.io/hackhands/desktop/packages/ubuntu/xenial/hackhands_${pkgver}_amd64.deb/download")

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 .deb from packagecloud.io (a legitimate third-party package hosting service used by many vendors) for the hackhands desktop application. The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any source build. While packagecloud.io is a well-known hosting platform and the SHA256 checksum is pinned, this is still a prebuilt binary from a non-distro host that gets executed on the user's system. The hackhands.com service appears to be defunct/acquired, raising questions about ongoing maintenance and whether the package host remains under the original vendor's control. The core concern is a prebuilt binary installed from a third-party host — this is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern (not a false positive), as the binary could contain arbitrary code and the vendor's continued control of the packagecloud.io repository is uncertain for a potentially defunct service.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: David Govea <govea.du@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Daniel Wyatt <Daniel.Wyatt@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=hackhands-bin
    
      5pkgver=2.0.1
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="An easy and convenient way to get notified and connect to requests on hackhands.com"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url='https://hackhands.com'
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('bash-completion'
    
      12         'desktop-file-utils'
    
      13         'gconf'
    
      14         'gtk2'
    
      15         'gvfs'
    
      16         'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      17         'libappindicator-gtk2'
    
      18         'libnotify'
    
      19         'libsystemd'
    
      20         'libxtst'
    
      21         'nss'
    
      22         'xdg-utils')
    
      23optdepends=('gnome-keyring' 'libgnome-keyring')
    
      24options=('!strip')
    
      25source_x86_64=("https://packagecloud.io/hackhands/desktop/packages/ubuntu/xenial/hackhands_${pkgver}_amd64.deb/download")
    
      26sha256sums_x86_64=('c6ca321d8fcbf6c70b194f7c8ad5f08957e0daa89bc7170a9f3936831cf57519')
    
      27
    
      28prepare() {
    
      29  tar -xJf data.tar.xz
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32package() {
    
      33  cp -r "$srcdir/usr" "$pkgdir"
    
      34  cp -r "$srcdir/opt" "$pkgdir"
    
      35}
    
      36
    
      37# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      38

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