hacpack-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer darkgeem 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (hacpack) from a personal host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) maintained by the package author themselves, not from the official upstream (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The official upstream does provide release binaries on GitHub, so there is no legitimate reason to host the binary on a personal server instead. The binary is installed as an executable in /usr/bin. While a sha256sum is provided, it only verifies integrity against the personal host's file — if that host is compromised or the maintainer substitutes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code with no way to verify it matches the official upstream release. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host rather than the verified upstream release channel.

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:12 source_x86_64=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hacpack.tar.gz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (hacpack) from a personal host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) maintained by the package author themselves, not from the official upstream (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The official upstream does provide release binaries on GitHub, so there is no legitimate reason to host the binary on a personal server instead. The binary is installed as an executable in /usr/bin. While a sha256sum is provided, it only verifies integrity against the personal host's file — if that host is compromised or the maintainer substitutes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code with no way to verify it matches the official upstream release. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host rather than the verified upstream release channel.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: darkgeem <darkgeem at pyrokinesis.fr>
    
      2pkgname=hacpack-bin
    
      3pkgver=1.36
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="hacPack is a tool for creating Nintendo Switch NCAs (Nintendo Content Archive) and packing them into NSPs (Nintendo Submission Package)"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/The-4n/hacPack/"
    
      8licence=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('pacman')
    
      10provides=('hacpack')
    
      11conflicts=('hacpack')
    
      12source_x86_64=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hacpack.tar.gz")
    
      13sha256sums_x86_64=("29f54663af7d3ffeb6715690cc0a498969c178a8b3f85fca8ce37027397d658a")
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16	_bin_name="${pkgname/-bin/}"
    
      17	_bin_file="${srcdir}/${_bin_name}"
    
      18	install -Dm755 "${_bin_file}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_bin_name}"
    
      19}
    
      20

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